Deploying Your AWS Application to the Cloud with Docker

Course details

Today's customers want new features to be deployed quickly, and with little to no downtime. In this course, instructor Carlos Rivas helps you streamline your workflow by building and deploying serverless applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using Docker. Carlos covers how to set up and configure a repository using AWS CodeCommit, a Git-compatible repository. He demonstrates how to build Docker images with CodeBuild; create a CI/CD pipeline for your CodeBuild project; build the network infrastructure for your deployment; create a task definition specific to your web application; and more. And in addition to walking through an automated build process and deployment strategy, he explains how to roll back a failed deployment if things go awry. Along the way, Carlos provides challenges that enable you to test your new skills.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Deploy your web apps with zero downtime
02 - Base knowledge

1. Setting Up Your Continuous Integration and Deployment Pipeline

03 - Deployment target architecture
04 - Creating your CodeCommit repository
05 - Uploading your code to CodeCommit
06 - Challenge - Clone and re-upload
07 - Solution - Remote code repositories

2. Building Docker Images with AWS CodeBuild

08 - Building your ECR Docker image repository
09 - Reviewing your project's Dockerfile
10 - CodeBuild buildspec file
11 - Creating a CI CD pipeline for your CodeBuild project
12 - Setting CodeBuild permissions
13 - Challenge - CodeBuild external resources
14 - Solution - Pulling external resources into CodeBuild

3. CodeDeploy for Blue-Green Application Deployments

15 - Building the network infrastructure for your deployment
16 - Deploy a load balancer
17 - Update the IAM role for your load balancer
18 - Container task definition for your container
19 - Create an ECS cluster and service
20 - Challenge - Canary deployments
21 - Solution - Route 53 for canary deployments

4. Deployment, Execution, and Validation

22 - Blue-green deployment strategy
23 - Deploy a code change
24 - Validate deployment and post-deployment options
25 - Challenge - Failed deployment
26 - Solution - Rolling back your deployment

Conclusion

27 - Key takeaways and best practices
28 - Resources to keep learning