Tools and Processes Used by DevOps Teams
Central to a DevOps team’s toolbox are CI/CD tools such as AWS CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline, which allow for the automation of software delivery processes. AWS CodeBuild is a service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces ready-to-deploy software packages. CodeDeploy automates application deployments to various AWS services, such as Amazon EC2, AWS Fargate, and AWS Lambda. CodePipeline is a continuous delivery service that enables automation of the release pipelines for fast and reliable application updates.
Container services such as Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) are also pivotal, providing scalable and secure environments for application deployment with Docker and Kubernetes. They support a microservices architecture, a key tenet of the DevOps philosophy, allowing teams to build, deploy, and manage applications composed of small, independent...