Explore the ins and outs of becoming an AWS certified DevOps professional engineer with the help of easy-to-follow practical examples and detailed explanations
Key Features
- Discover how to implement and manage continuous delivery systems and methodologies on AWS
- Explore real-world scenarios and hands-on examples that will prepare you to take the DOP-C01 exam with confidence
- Learn from enterprise DevOps scenarios to prepare fully for the AWS certification exam
Book Description
The AWS Certified DevOps Engineer certification is one of the highest AWS credentials, vastly recognized in cloud computing or software development industries. This book is an extensive guide to helping you strengthen your DevOps skills as you work with your AWS workloads on a day-to-day basis.
You'll begin by learning how to create and deploy a workload using the AWS code suite of tools, and then move on to adding monitoring and fault tolerance to your workload. You'll explore enterprise scenarios that'll help you to understand various AWS tools and services. This book is packed with detailed explanations of essential concepts to help you get to grips with the domains needed to pass the DevOps professional exam. As you advance, you'll delve into AWS with the help of hands-on examples and practice questions to gain a holistic understanding of the services covered in the AWS DevOps professional exam. Throughout the book, you'll find real-world scenarios that you can easily incorporate in your daily activities when working with AWS, making you a valuable asset for any organization.
By the end of this AWS certification book, you'll have gained the knowledge needed to pass the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer exam, and be able to implement different techniques for delivering each service in real-world scenarios.
What you will learn
- Automate your pipelines, build phases, and deployments with AWS-native tooling
- Discover how to implement logging and monitoring using AWS-native tooling
- Gain a solid understanding of the services included in the AWS DevOps Professional exam
- Reinforce security practices on the AWS platform from an exam point of view
- Find out how to automatically enforce standards and policies in AWS environments
- Explore AWS best practices and anti-patterns
- Enhance your core AWS skills with the help of exercises and practice tests
Who this book is for
This book is for AWS developers and SysOps administrators looking to advance their careers by achieving the highly sought-after DevOps Professional certification. Basic knowledge of AWS as well as its core services (EC2, S3, and RDS) is needed. Familiarity with DevOps concepts such as source control, monitoring, and logging, not necessarily in the AWS context, will be helpful.
Table of Contents
- Amazon Web Service Pillars
- Fundamental AWS Services
- Identity and Access Management and Working with secrets in AWS
- Amazon S3 Blob Storage
- Amazon DynamoDB
- Understanding CI / CD and the SDLC
- Using CloudFormation Templates to Deploy Workloads
- Creating Workloads with CodeCommit and CodeBuild
- Deploying Workloads with CodeDeploy and CodePipeline
- Using AWS Opsworks to Manage and Deploy your Application Stack
- Using Elastic Beanstalk to Deploy your Application
- Lambda Deployments and Versioning
- Blue Green Deployments
- CloudWatch and X-Ray's Role in DevOps
- CloudWatch Metrics and Amazon EventBridge
- Various Logs Generated (VPC Flow Logs, Load Balancer Logs, CloudTrail Logs)
- Advanced and Enterprise Logging Scenarios
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Adam Book has been programming since the age of six and has been constantly tapped by founders and CEOs as one of the pillars to start their online or cloud businesses. Adam has developed applications, and websites. He’s been involved in cloud computing and datacenter transformation professionally since 1996 focusing on bringing the benefits of cloud computing to his clients. He’s led technology teams in transformative changes such as the shift to programming in sprints, with Agile formats. Adam is a cloud evangelist with a track record of migrating thousands of applications to the cloud and guiding businesses in understanding cloud economics to create use cases and identify operating model gaps. He has been certified on AWS since 2014.
