Connecting to an AWS CodeCommit Repository Demo

This lesson provides you with an understanding of the concepts and principles surrounding Continuous Integration/Continous Delivery (CI/CD) and AWS Developer Tools to help you prepare for the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional exam.

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Learning Objectives

• How to set up your development environment
• How version control works
• How to begin implementing testing in your environment
• The why and how of database schema migrations
• What Jenkins is and why you should care
• Define continuous delivery and continuous deployment
• Describe some of the code-level changes that will help support continuous delivery
• Describe the pros and cons of monoliths and microservices
• Explain blue / green & canary deployments
• Explain the pros and cons of mutable and immutable servers
• Identify some of the tools that are used for continuous delivery
• Introduction to AWS CodeCommit and how it can be used to manage your source code
• Learn where AWS CodeCommit sits in a CI/CD setup
• Understand when and where to use CodeCommit within your own development solutions
• Introduce you to AWS CodeBuild and how it can be used to compile, build, and test your source code
• Learn where AWS CodeBuild sits in a CI/CD setup
• Familiarize yourself with the AWS CodeBuild service and ensure you know when and where to use it within your own software projects
• Understand what AWS CodeDeploy is and when it should be used
• Learn from a demonstration where we use AWS CodeDeploy to deploy our web portal project onto EC2 infrastructure 
• Learn the fundamentals of AWS CodePipeline
• Understand where CodePipeline the service sits in a CI/CD setup
• Learn how you can use AWS CodePipeline to orchestrate, build and deploy a workflow for a web portal project
• Understand the key aspects of AWS CodeStar, its benefits, and its use cases
• Provision a full CI/CD workflow using AWS CodeStar
• Introduce the AWS X-Ray service and the functionality that it provides
• Explain the functions of the AWS X-Ray service and how to use AWS X-Ray with other AWS services
• Demonstrate how to use the AWS X-Ray Console - highlighting key areas such as the Service Map and Tracing windows
• Demonstrate how to implement a Docker-based Node.js application using the AWS X-ray SDK
• Learn how AWS Amplify allows frontend web and mobile developers to build full-stack applications on AWS
• Introduce AWS Cloud9 as a browser-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for writing, running, and debugging application code
• Introduce AWS CloudShell as a browser-based shell to execute scripts using the AWS CLI