Effective DevOps with AWS

Scale gracefully and maintain outstanding performance with your AWS-based infrastructure using DevOps principles

About This Book

• Implement DevOps principles to take full advantage of the AWS stack and services
• Take expert look at solving problems faced by real developers and operation teams and learn to overcome them
• Learn from expert insights of the author who has worked with Silicon Valley's most high-profile companies

Who This Book Is For

This book is for developers, DevOps engineers and teams who want to build and use AWS for their software infrastructure. Basic computer science knowledge is required for this book.

What You Will Learn

• Find out what it means to practice DevOps and what its principles are
• Build repeatable infrastructures using templates and configuration management
• Deploy multiple times a day by implementing continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines
• Use the latest technologies, including containers and serverless computing, to scale your infrastructure
• Collect metrics and logs and implement an alerting strategy
• Make your system robust and secure

In Detail

The DevOps movement has transformed the way modern tech companies work. AWS which has been on the forefront of the Cloud computing revolution has also been a key contributor of this DevOps movement creating a huge range of managed services that help you implement the DevOps principles.
In this book, you'll see how the most successful tech start-ups launch and scale their services on AWS and how you can too. Written by a lead member of Mediums DevOps team, this book explains how to treat infrastructure as code, meaning you can bring resources online and offline as necessary with the code as easily as you control your software. You will also build a continuous integration and continuous deployment pipeline to keep your app up to date. You'll find out how to scale your applications to offer maximum performance to users anywhere in the world, even when traffic spikes with the latest technologies, such as containers and serverless computing. You will also take a deep dive into monitoring and alerting to make sure your users have the best experience when using your service.
Finally, you'll get to grips with ensuring the security of your platform and data.

Style and approach

This is a practical, hands-on, comprehensive guide to AWS, helping readers understand AWS in a step by step manner.