AWS for DevOps: Continuous Delivery and Process Automation

Course details

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has several powerful features and services that support processes automation and continuous delivery. Learn how to leverage several core services, including CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy and CodePipeline. See how to use the AWS command line interface to write and run scripts for automations. Discover best practices you can follow, and third-party tools you can use, to successfully set up automated processes and implement continuous delivery, and find out how to effectively manage application updates. This course can also be used as an exam preparation resource, as it covers the topics in the first domain of the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer exam: Continuous Delivery and Process Automation.

Learning objectives
Continuous delivery (CD) approaches
Automation approaches
Core services of AWS
Core AWS tools
Advanced CD
Advanced automation
Using third-party tools for CD and automation

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - What you should know
03 - Exercise files
04 - About using cloud services

1. Continuous Delivery (CD) and Automation Approaches

05 - About AWS Application Automation
06 - Automation tool types
07 - Continuous delivery defined
08 - Source control systems
09 - Types of testing
10 - Types of deployments
11 - CD and serverless architectures

2. CD and Automation with Core AWS Services

12 - AWS automation services
13 - Using AWS CodeStar
14 - Update code from IDE and CodeStar
15 - Using CloudFormation templates
16 - About CodeCommit users
17 - Using CodeCommit
18 - Using CodeBuild
19 - Using CodeDeploy
20 - Using CodePipeline
21 - Using OpsWorks
22 - Understand Config and Service Catalog

3. Using AWS Tools for Advanced CD and Automation

23 - AWS automation tools and services
24 - Using CloudWatch for automation
25 - Set up and use the AWS CLI for automation
26 - Code tools for CD and automation
27 - Set up and use the AWS SDK for Node.js

4. Advanced and Third-Party Tools

28 - Understand third-party automation tools
29 - Understand third-party CD tools
30 - Infrastructure as code
31 - Practices, metrics, and patterns

Conclusion

32 - Next steps