AWS Developer: Deploying on AWS

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Free Online Course: AWS Developer: Deploying on AWS provided by edX is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 6 weeks long, 3-4 hours a week. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from edX.

Overview
  • In this course, part of the AWS Developer Series, you will learn how to use DevOps methodologies and tools. You will build and test your application using AWS Cloud9, and deploy to your cloud-based infrastructure with AWS Elastic Beanstalk. You will create a continuous integration/continous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline using AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeCommit, and AWS CodePipeline.

    You will monitor your application and deployment using Amazon Cloudwatch, and create dashboards using Amazon Elasticsearch and Kibana to gather and catalog performance metrics.

    This course has a significant hands-on component. Throughout the class, you will perform exercises using the AWS services covered.


    Class discussions provide an opportunity for you to interact with fellow students as well as AWS training staff.

Syllabus
  • Week 1
    Welcome to Deploying on AWS

    • Meet the instructors
    • Discussion: Introduce yourself
    Introduction to Deploying on AWS
    • What are we building this course? Project Introduction
    • Exercise 1.1: Setup a local AWS Cloud9 environment
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    • Introduction and demonstration
    • Exercise 1.2: Local deployment with AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Weekly Quiz
    Weekly Discussion

    Week 2
    AWS CodeCommit
    • Exercise 2.1: AWS CodeCommit
    AWS CodeBuild
    • Exercise: 2.2 AWS CodeBuild
    AWS CodePipeline
    • Exercise 2.3 – AWS CodePipeline
    Weekly Quiz
    Weekly Discussion

    Week 3
    AWS CloudFormation
    • Exercise 3.1 CloudFormation - Create an RDS and a VPC
    • Exercise 3.2 CloudFormation
    AWS CodeDeploy
    • Exercise 3.3 - Code Deploy
    • Acceptance Testing
    • Exercise 3.4 Acceptance Testing
    Weekly Quiz
    Weekly Discussion

    Week 4AWS Systems Manager
    Advancing CodeDeploy
    • Appspec File & Rolling Deployments
    • Exercise 4.1- Integrating AWS CodeDeploy and AWS CodePipeline
    Weekly Quiz
    Weekly Discussion

    Week 5
    Monitoring
    • Monitoring the Pipeline
    • Exercise 5.1 - Notifications on Build Status
    Amazon CloudWatch
    • Exercise 5.2 Stream nginx logs into CloudWatch Logs
    Amazon Elasticsearch Service & Kibana
    • Exercise 5.3 Integrate CloudWatch logs with Amazon Elasticsearch Service and Kibana
    Weekly Quiz
    Weekly Discussion

    Week 6
    Seeing a change through the pipeline
    • Adding a feature to our application
    • Exercise 6.1: Japanese language check-in and build.
    AWS CodeStar
    • Branching Workflows
    Course Wrap up
    Couse Wrap up and Preview of Next course
    End of Course Assessment
    Weekly Discussio