AWS: Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation

Course details

AWS is an exciting proposition for DevOps. Yes, it's amazing to be able to build a virtual data center with ease, but that's just the beginning: wait until you start using AWS to deploy software. Watch this course to learn how to use AWS tools to provision hosts and deploy apps that take advantage of its elastic, cost-effective, and scalable infrastructure. IT architect and instructor Brandon Rich shows how to start up new computing resources with EC2, provision them, and deploy applications in a fast, automated, and consistent way. Discover how to manage infrastructure as code with CloudFormation, rapidly build an app stack with Elastic Beanstalk, automate code pushes with CodeDeploy, and quickly set up your coding projects with CodeStar.

This course is also part of a series designed to help you prepare for the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate certification exam.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Understanding AWS deploying and provisioning
02 - What you should know
03 - Initial setup

1. AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Foundations

04 - Understand AWS EC2
05 - Understand AWS Elastic Load Balancers
06 - Understand AWS Auto Scaling
07 - Understand AWS security groups
08 - Understand SSH key authentication

2. EC2 Creation and Provisioning

09 - Create an EC2 instance
10 - Connect to the terminal with AWS Systems Manager
11 - Understand AWS CloudFormation
12 - Writing a CloudFormation template
13 - Running a CloudFormation template
14 - Concepts for updating a CloudFormation stack
15 - Practice updating a CloudFormation stack (change sets)
16 - Understand CloudFormation custom resources
17 - Custom resources in CloudFormation
18 - Create a CloudFormation custom resource
19 - CloudFormation teardown

3. Deployment Concepts

20 - Architect apps for horizontal scaling
21 - AWS network security for app deployment
22 - Introducing the demo app
23 - Forking the demo app

4. Elastic Beanstalk

24 - Understand Elastic Beanstalk
25 - Deployment options
26 - Initialize an Elastic Beanstalk application
27 - Create an Elastic Beanstalk environment
28 - Customize Elastic Beanstalk
29 - Troubleshooting Beanstalk and setting environment variables
30 - Beanstalk database
31 - Deploying and scaling a Beanstalk App
32 - Elastic Beanstalk teardown

5. CodeDeploy

33 - AWS CodeDeploy key concepts
34 - AppSpec file and lifecycle events
35 - CodeDeploy - IAM setup
36 - CodeDeploy - Instance preparation
37 - CodeDeploy - Auto-scaling Group
38 - CodeDeploy - App creation
39 - Install and configure the AWS CLI
40 - CodeDeploy - AppSpec and deployment
41 - CodeDeploy - Adding database and security groups
42 - CodeDeploy - Managing secrets with Parameter Store
43 - CodeDeploy - Add a load balancer
44 - Troubleshoot CodeDeploy deployments
45 - Understand AWS CodeBuild
46 - Add CodeBuild support to an app
47 - Integrate CodeBuild into the pipeline
48 - CodeDeploy teardown

6. CodeDeploy for Lambda

49 - Understand AWS Cloud9
50 - Provision a Cloud9 environment
51 - Explore the Cloud9 environment

7. CodeStar

52 - Understand AWS CodeStar
53 - Create a CodeStar project
54 - Connect your CodeStar project to Cloud9
55 - Deploy a change to your CodeStar project
56 - CodeStar and Cloud9 teardown

Conclusion

57 - Next steps