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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

Introduction

AWS Lambda is a service which was launched by AWS in 2014 at re:Invent; since then, it revolutionized the serverless application landscape. Lambda basically provides runtime or environment for your function or code to execute. It executes the function on your behalf and takes care of provisioning and managing resources, which will be needed for your function to run. These resource configurations will be asked to you while you create a lambda function.

When a Lambda function is invoked, it launches a container at the backend with the configuration that you provide during the creation of the Lambda function. Initially, it will take some time to provision and bootstrap a container; after that, it will run the code which will be mentioned in the Lambda function. Once your code completes its execution, the container will be destroyed after a while. You can also deploy...

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