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Effective DevOps with AWS
Effective DevOps with AWS

Effective DevOps with AWS: Ship faster, scale better, and deliver incredible productivity

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Effective DevOps with AWS

Deploying Your First Web Application

In Chapter 1, The Cloud and the DevOps Revolution, we covered a general introduction to the cloud, its benefits, and what having a DevOps philosophy means. AWS offers a number of services all easily accessible through the web interface, command-line interface, and various SDKs and APIs. In this chapter, we will take advantage of the web interface and command-line interface to create and configure our account and create a web server to host a simple Hello World application, all in a matter of minutes.

In this chapter, we will go through the following topics:

  • Creating and configuring your account
  • Spinning up your first web server

Creating and configuring your account

If you haven't signed up for AWS yet, it is time to do so.

Signing up

This step is, of course, fairly simple and self-explanatory. In order to sign up, if you haven't done so yet, open https://portal.aws.amazon.com/gp/aws/developer/registration/ in your browser and follow the steps. You will need an email address and your credit card information.

There are two exceptions to this process, as follows:

  • If you plan on deploying servers in China, then you need to create your account on https://www.amazonaws.cn/.
  • AWS has a special facility called GovCloud for the specific regulatory needs of United States federal, state, and local agencies. To sign up for this, use the link https...

Creating our first web server

Now that we have our environment set up, we are finally ready to launch our first EC2 instance. There are a couple of ways to do that. Since we just installed and configured awscli and we want to see effective ways of managing infrastructures, we will demonstrate how to do this using the command-line interface.

Launching a virtual server requires having a certain amount of information ahead of time. We will use the aws ec2 run-instances command, but we need to supply it with:

  • An AMI ID
  • An instance type
  • A security group
  • An SSH key pair

AMI

An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) is a package that contains, among other things, the root filesystem with the OS (for example, Linux, Unix, or Windows) and additional...

Summary

This chapter was a quick and simple introduction to AWS and its most well-known service, EC2. After signing up for AWS, we configured our environment in such a way that we could create a virtual server using the command-line interface. Leading to this, we selected our first AMI, created our first security group, and generated our ssh keys, which we will reuse throughout the book. After launching an EC2 instance, we manually deployed a simple node.js application to display Hello World.

While the process wasn't very fastidious thanks to the AWS CLI, it still required going through numerous steps which aren't very repeatable. We also deployed the application without any automation or validation. Furthermore, the only way we can check if the application is running is by manually checking the endpoint. In the remainder of the book, we will revisit the process of creating...

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Key benefits

  • 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

Description

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.

Who is this book 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

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Table of Contents

8 Chapters
The Cloud and the DevOps Revolution Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Deploying Your First Web Application Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Treating Your Infrastructure As Code Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Adding Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Scaling Your Infrastructure Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Running Containers in AWS Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Monitoring and Alerting Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Hardening the Security of Your AWS Environment Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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Al from Boston Dec 26, 2017
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This book presents a very substantive integration between some of the best and most popular DevOps tools (e.g. GitHub, Jenkins, Ansible) and some of the most important AWS tools (e.g. EC2, S3, SNS, CodePipeline, CodeDeploy). Very well worth your time and money if you are serious about practicing effective DevOps.
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Wanderlust May 22, 2019
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This book provides one of the clearest ways of teaching AWS to a beginner, who is comfortable with command line. It was perfect in helping me navigate the seemingly unlimited features that AWS offers. It explains what a beginning DevOps engineer would need to setup a web application on AWS. Then it covers Ansible, Git, CI/CD (Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment), Scaling, Containers with Docker, and Security. The book covers what most startup companies use as their solution if they use AWS (versus the other two cloud providers). I can't attest to it, but it feels like this is the common solution of many Silicon Valley companies (AWS/Ansible/Docker). The book provided a natural progression and view into the DevOps role. Easy-to-read and great book.
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Josquin Gaillard Aug 27, 2018
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This book is great for learning how to better do devops on AWS. I recommend this book for anyone getting started in doing devops on the Cloud.
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poplinr Dec 20, 2017
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It's what you'd wish someone would just tell you about using AWS to correct way (the only issue with this book is that the formatting for 'code' on Kindle isn't that great, however, you can bump up the text size and it's all good).
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S. E. Devlin Aug 18, 2018
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Only just received the book so I can’t comment on the depth but it’s nicely produced and seems quite comprehensive. What’s not listed in the product description (or I missed it) is that the examples are based on Python. This isn’t necessarily a bad choice - on the contrary, but I was hoping for something more focused on the AWS Cli or maybe terrafrom.That said, Python is something that I’ve been meaning to play with - I can read it but never got around to learning the syntax so perhaps this will be my motivation.Will update the review once I’ve had to digest properly.
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