AWS: Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation

Introduction

• Understanding AWS deploying and provisioning
• What you should know
• Initial setup

• Understand AWS EC2
• Understand AWS Elastic Load Balancers
• Understand AWS Auto Scaling
• Understand AWS security groups
• Understand SSH key authentication

• Create an EC2 instance
• Connect to the terminal with AWS Systems Manager
• Understand AWS CloudFormation
• Writing a CloudFormation template
• Running a CloudFormation template
• Concepts for updating a CloudFormation stack
• Practice updating a CloudFormation stack (change sets)
• Understand CloudFormation custom resources
• Custom resources in CloudFormation
• Create a CloudFormation custom resource
• CloudFormation teardown

• Architect apps for horizontal scaling
• AWS network security for app deployment
• Introducing the demo app
• Forking the demo app

• Understand Elastic Beanstalk
• Deployment options
• Initialize an Elastic Beanstalk application
• Create an Elastic Beanstalk environment
• Customize Elastic Beanstalk
• Troubleshooting Beanstalk and setting environment variables
• Beanstalk database
• Deploying and scaling a Beanstalk App
• Elastic Beanstalk teardown

• AWS CodeDeploy key concepts
• AppSpec file and lifecycle events
• CodeDeploy: IAM setup
• CodeDeploy: Instance preparation
• CodeDeploy: Auto-scaling Group
• CodeDeploy: App creation
• Install and configure the AWS CLI
• CodeDeploy: AppSpec and deployment
• CodeDeploy: Adding database and security groups
• CodeDeploy: Managing secrets with Parameter Store
• CodeDeploy: Add a load balancer
• Troubleshoot CodeDeploy deployments
• Understand AWS CodeBuild
• Add CodeBuild support to an app
• Integrate CodeBuild into the pipeline
• CodeDeploy teardown

• Understand AWS Cloud9
• Provision a Cloud9 environment
• Explore the Cloud9 environment

• Understand AWS CodeStar
• Create a CodeStar project
• Connect your CodeStar project to Cloud9
• Deploy a change to your CodeStar project
• CodeStar and Cloud9 teardown

• Next steps