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AWS CDK in Practice

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Product type Book
Published in Jun 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801812399
Pages 196 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (2):
Mark Avdi Mark Avdi
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Leo Lam Leo Lam
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface Part 1: An Introduction to AWS CDK
Chapter 1: Getting Started with IaC and AWS CDK Chapter 2: A Starter Project and Core Concepts Part 2: Practical Cloud Development with AWS CDK
Chapter 3: Building a Full Stack Application with CDK Chapter 4: Complete Web Application Deployment with AWS CDK Chapter 5: Continuous Delivery with CDK-Powered Apps Chapter 6: Testing and Troubleshooting AWS CDK Applications Part 3: Serverless Development with AWS CDK
Chapter 7: Serverless Application Development with AWS CDK Chapter 8: Streamlined Serverless Development Part 4: Advanced Architectural Concepts
Chapter 9: Indestructible Serverless Application Architecture (ISAA) Chapter 10: The Current CDK Landscape and Outlook Index Other Books You May Enjoy

Introduction to CI/CD

Before jumping into action, we wanted to take some time to introduce you to some concepts about CI/CD and explain why even though it’s imperfect, AWS’s CI/CD toolset fits CDK projects the best.

What is continuous integration (CI)?

Put simply, CI is the process of creating different branches for bug fixes and features in your projects. Once the results are satisfactory, you can go ahead and merge these changes into the main branch. By satisfactory results, we mean the code is reviewed and well tested.

While CI is in the most part a development procedure issue, there are elements of CI that need to be automated. We don’t know about you, but we wouldn’t be able to trust the word of every developer who has run the tests that everything was green and OK. This integration needs to happen automatically and the results must be reported.

What is continuous delivery (CD)?

Once the steps from the CI process are complete, CD kicks...

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