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AWS Automation Cookbook

You're reading from   AWS Automation Cookbook Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment using AWS services

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788394925
Length 388 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nikit Swaraj Nikit Swaraj
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Using AWS CodeCommit 2. Building an Application using CodeBuild FREE CHAPTER 3. Deploying Application using CodeDeploy & CodePipeline 4. Building Scalable and Fault-Tolerant CI/CD Pipeline 5. Understanding Microservices and ECS 6. Continuous Deployment to ECS Using Developer Tools and CloudFormation 7. IaC Using CloudFormation and Ansible 8. Automating AWS Resource Control Using AWS Lambda 9. Microservice Applications in Kubernetes Using Jenkins Pipeline 2.0 10. Best Practices and Troubleshooting Tips

Creating the launch configuration and Auto Scaling group

Auto Scaling is an AWS Service, which allows us to scale up (adding EC2 instance) or scale down (destroying EC instance) infrastructure automatically in a horizontal manner. Scaling up or scaling down of EC2 instance depends on some policy metrics such as CPU Utilization, health status checks.

AWS Auto Scaling service launches the EC2 instance with the help of the launch configuration. It basically includes the template in which we will mention which AMI, instance type, network configuration, user-data script, and many more, will be used to launch the instance.

Getting ready

To create a launch configuration, we need to create a custom AMI, which should have an application...

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