Using Amazon Alexa to Perform Voice Activated CI/CD Build and Deployments

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Are you interested in learning how to apply Amazon Alexa Skills to common development tasks?
This lesson explains and demonstrates how to automate the process of building, testing, and deploying a Java project to the cloud using Amazon Alexa Skills with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD). 

Lesson Overview
This content will help you gain an understanding of core CI/CD concepts. We start by covering aspects of CI/CD process automation using tools provided by AWS, Jenkins, Blue Ocean and Maven.  We then gain the skills needed to automate the process of building, testing, and deploying a Java project to the cloud using Amazon Alexa Skills. We learn how to do this by integrating the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) with AWS services like Lambda and Elastic Beanstalk. 

Learning Objectives

• Recognize and explain core concepts of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
• Recognize and work with Jenkins Pipeline and Blue Ocean
• Extend Amazon Alexa by developing a custom Alexa Skill using the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK)
• Integrate Alexa with other AWS services like Lambda and Elastic Beanstalk

Intended Audience
Software Developers,  Build and Release Engineers,  Alexa Enthusiasts. 

Prerequisites
To get the most from this content we recommend you have an understanding of the following areas

• Basic knowledge of the principles of software engineering and development
• Basic knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and an AWS account
• Basic knowledge of Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
• Basic knowledge of the Alexa Voice Service (AVS)

We recommend the following content to gain an understanding of these concepts 
DevOps Fundamentals
DevOps Playbook - CI/CD Tools and Services

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