Complete Guide to AWS Software Deployment

Introduction

• Welcome to AWS software deployment
• What you should know
• Initial setup
• Navigate the AWS Management Console
• Set an AWS budget alarm

1. AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Foundations

• Understanding AWS EC2
• Understanding AWS load balancers
• Understanding AWS Auto Scaling groups
• Understanding AWS security groups
• Understanding SSH key authentication

2. EC2 Creation and Provisioning

• Create an AWS EC2 instance
• Connect to an EC2 instance with AWS Systems Manager
• Understanding AWS CloudFormation
• Writing an AWS CloudFormation template
• Running an AWS CloudFormation template
• Concepts for updating an AWS CloudFormation stack
• Practice updating AWS CloudFormation stacks via change sets
• Challenge: Use CloudFormation to build an instance with SSM
• Solution: Use CloudFormation to build an instance with SSM
• Understanding AWS CloudFormation custom resources
• Create an AWS CloudFormation custom resource, part 1
• Create an AWS CloudFormation custom resource, part 2
• CloudFormation teardown

3. Deployment Concepts

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

4. Elastic Beanstalk

• Understanding AWS Elastic Beanstalk
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk deployment options
• Initialize an AWS Elastic Beanstalk application
• Create an AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment
• Customize AWS Elastic Beanstalk with ebextensions
• Troubleshoot Elastic Beanstalk and set environment variables
• Add a database to AWS Elastic Beanstalk
• Deploy and scale an AWS Elastic Beanstalk app
• Deploy Docker containers via AWS Elastic Beanstalk
• Elastic Beanstalk teardown

5. CodeDeploy

• AWS CodeDeploy key concepts
• AWS CodeDeploy: AppSpec and lifecycle events
• AWS CodeDeploy: IAM setup
• AWS CodeDeploy: Instance preparation
• AWS CodeDeploy: Auto Scaling group
• AWS CodeDeploy: App creation
• Install and configure the AWS CLI
• AWS CodeDeploy: Adding database and security groups
• AWS CodeDeploy: Managing secrets with Secrets Manager
• AWS CodeDeploy: AppSpec and deployment
• AWS CodeDeploy: Add a load balancer
• Troubleshoot AWS CodeDeploy deployments
• Understanding AWS CodeBuild
• Add AWS CodeBuild support to an app
• Integrate AWS CodeBuild into CodePipeline
• AWS CodePipeline challenge: Add an approval stage
• AWS CodePipeline challenge solution: Add an approval stage
• AWS CodeDeploy teardown

6. Elastic Container Service

• Understanding AWS Elastic Container Service and Fargate
• Run the demo app locally with Docker
• Create an AWS ECR repository for use with ECS
• Create an ECS Fargate cluster and task definition
• Deploy a Docker app with an ECS task
• Run Docker apps with an ECS service
• Scale Docker apps with an ECS service

7. Automating ECS Deployments

• Challenge: Automating Docker builds on AWS
• Solution: CodeBuild for Docker ECR pushes
• Automating the Docker build with CodePipeline
• Fully automating ECS Docker deployments with CodePipeline
• ECS teardown
• Understand AWS Copilot

Conclusion

• Next steps