Complete Guide to AWS Software Deployment

Course details

Join IT architect and instructor Brandon Rich as you embark on a journey from cloud fundamentals to full DevOps automation, starting with EC2 essentials for standing up secure, scalable architecture and moving to infrastructure-as-code with CloudFormation before diving into AWS’s deep set of code deployment options. Discover how to rapidly build an app stack with Elastic Beanstalk; deploy, scale, and automate in Elastic Container Service (ECS); and fully automate code pushes with CodeDeploy, CodeBuild, and CodePipeline. With the understanding you gain from this course, you'll be well on your way to deploying, configuring, and automating software deployment with greater speed and agility than ever before.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome to AWS software deployment
02 - What you should know
03 - Initial setup
04 - Navigate the AWS Management Console
05 - Set an AWS budget alarm

1. AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Foundations

06 - Understanding AWS EC2
07 - Understanding AWS load balancers
08 - Understanding AWS Auto Scaling groups
09 - Understanding AWS security groups
10 - Understanding SSH key authentication

2. EC2 Creation and Provisioning

11 - Create an AWS EC2 instance
12 - Connect to an EC2 instance with AWS Systems Manager
13 - Understanding AWS CloudFormation
14 - Writing an AWS CloudFormation template
15 - Running an AWS CloudFormation template
16 - Concepts for updating an AWS CloudFormation stack
17 - Practice updating AWS CloudFormation stacks via change sets
18 - Challenge - Use CloudFormation to build an instance with SSM
19 - Solution - Use CloudFormation to build an instance with SSM
20 - Understanding AWS CloudFormation custom resources
21 - Create an AWS CloudFormation custom resource, part 1
22 - Create an AWS CloudFormation custom resource, part 2
23 - CloudFormation teardown

3. Deployment Concepts

24 - Architect apps for horizontal scaling
25 - AWS network security for app deployment
26 - Introducing the demo app

4. Elastic Beanstalk

27 - Understanding AWS Elastic Beanstalk
28 - AWS Elastic Beanstalk deployment options
29 - Initialize an AWS Elastic Beanstalk application
30 - Create an AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment
31 - Customize AWS Elastic Beanstalk with ebextensions
32 - Troubleshoot Elastic Beanstalk and set environment variables
33 - Add a database to AWS Elastic Beanstalk
34 - Deploy and scale an AWS Elastic Beanstalk app
35 - Deploy Docker containers via AWS Elastic Beanstalk
36 - Elastic Beanstalk teardown

5. CodeDeploy

37 - AWS CodeDeploy key concepts
38 - AWS CodeDeploy - AppSpec and lifecycle events
39 - AWS CodeDeploy - IAM setup
40 - AWS CodeDeploy - Instance preparation
41 - AWS CodeDeploy - Auto Scaling group
42 - AWS CodeDeploy - App creation
43 - Install and configure the AWS CLI
44 - AWS CodeDeploy - Adding database and security groups
45 - AWS CodeDeploy - Managing secrets with Secrets Manager
46 - AWS CodeDeploy - AppSpec and deployment
47 - AWS CodeDeploy - Add a load balancer
48 - Troubleshoot AWS CodeDeploy deployments
49 - Understanding AWS CodeBuild
50 - Add AWS CodeBuild support to an app
51 - Integrate AWS CodeBuild into CodePipeline
52 - AWS CodePipeline challenge - Add an approval stage
53 - AWS CodePipeline challenge solution - Add an approval stage
54 - AWS CodeDeploy teardown

6. Elastic Container Service

55 - Understanding AWS Elastic Container Service and Fargate
56 - Run the demo app locally with Docker
57 - Create an AWS ECR repository for use with ECS
58 - Create an ECS Fargate cluster and task definition
59 - Deploy a Docker app with an ECS task
60 - Run Docker apps with an ECS service
61 - Scale Docker apps with an ECS service

7. Automating ECS Deployments

62 - Challenge - Automating Docker builds on AWS
63 - Solution - CodeBuild for Docker ECR pushes
64 - Automating the Docker build with CodePipeline
65 - Fully automating ECS Docker deployments with CodePipeline
66 - ECS teardown
67 - Understand AWS Copilot

Conclusion

68 - Next steps