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Getting Started with DevOps on AWS

Loh, Yiang Meng

Solutions Architect,
Amazon Web Services

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Agenda
• What is DevOps?

• Release Process

• What is CI/CD?

• AWS Code Services

• Demo

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What is DevOps?
DevOps =

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What is DevOps?
DevOps = Culture + Practices + Tools

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What is DevOps?
DevOps = Culture + Practices + Tools

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What is DevOps?
DevOps = Culture + Practices + Tools

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What is DevOps?
DevOps = Culture + Practices + Tools

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A typical release process stages

Source Build Test Deploy

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A typical release process stages

Source

• Pull source code

such as .java files

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A typical release process stages

Source Build

• Pull source code • Compile code

such as .java files • Unit tests
• Style checkers
• Generate code
artifacts

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A typical release process stages

Source Build Test

• Pull source code • Compile code • Integration tests

such as .java files • Unit tests with other
• Style checkers systems
• Generate code • Load testing
artifacts • UI tests
• Security testing

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A typical release process stages

Source Build Test Deploy

• Pull source code • Compile code • Integration tests • Deploy to staging

such as .java files • Unit tests with other environments
• Style checkers systems • Promote to
• Generate code • Load testing Production
artifacts • UI tests environment
• Security testing

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Common issues faced

Source Build Test Deploy

• Merge conflicts
• Tightly coupled
changes
• Repository
unavailability

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Common issues faced

Source Build Test Deploy

• Merge conflicts • Inconsistent

• Tightly coupled configuration
changes • Long wait for
• Repository build server
unavailability availability

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Common issues faced

Source Build Test Deploy

• Merge conflicts • Inconsistent • Simply going

• Tightly coupled configuration through motion
changes • Long wait for • Inconsistent
• Repository build server testing
unavailability availability • Unable to do load
testing

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Common issues faced

Source Build Test Deploy

• Merge conflicts • Inconsistent • Simply going • Deployment

• Tightly coupled configuration through motion downtime
changes • Long wait for • Inconsistent • “But it worked in
• Repository build server testing Staging!”
unavailability availability • Unable to do load • Inconsistent
testing rollback

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Continuous integration goals

Source Build Test Deploy

Continuous integration

1. Automatically kick off a new build when new code is checked in

2. Build and test code in a consistent, repeatable environment
3. Continually have an artifact ready for deployment
4. Continually close feedback loop when build fails

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Continuous deployment goals

Source Build Test Deploy

Continuous integration

Continuous deployment

1. Automatically deploy new changes to staging environments for testing

2. Deploy to production safely without impacting customers
3. Deliver to customers faster
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AWS Code Services

Source Build Test Deploy

AWS CodeCommit AWS CodeBuild AWS CodeBuild AWS CodeDeploy

+ 3rd party tooling

AWS CodePipeline
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AWS Code Services

Source

AWS CodeCommit

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AWS CodeCommit
Secure, scalable, and managed Git source control Git objects
in Amazon Simple
Storage Service
(Amazon S3)

SSH or HTTPS Git index

in Amazon DynamoDB

Git push
AWS CodeCommit
Encryption keys
in AWS Key
Management Service
(KMS)

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Branching strategy: GitFlow workflow
• Easier to understand and
test
• Code review faster
• Backwards compatible
• GitFlow discipline

Credits: Atlassian GitFlow Workflow

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AWS Code Services

Build Test

AWS CodeBuild AWS CodeBuild

+ 3rd party tooling

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AWS CodeBuild
• Fully managed build service
• Isolated build containers for
consistent, immutable environment
• Docker and AWS Command Line
Interface (CLI) out of box
• Ability to customize build
environment

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 Continuous integration workflow

AWS CodeCommit AWS CodeBuild

Test types
Commit to
dev branch Hook Unit tests

Pull code Integration tests

Developer Code coverage

Send build report to development Distributed builds;
team; stop everything if build fails run tests in parallel

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AWS Code Services

Deploy

AWS CodeDeploy

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AWS CodeDeploy
• Automates code deployments
• Handles complexity of application
updates
• Avoid downtime during deployment
• Roll back automatically upon failure
• Limit “blast radius” with traffic control

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Choosing a deployment technique
Aim is to introduce the changes slowly
• Achieve zero downtime
• Deploy to only a few instances first
• Incrementally shift traffic to new version
• Bake and monitor performance before
committing
• Achieve fast rollback on failures

Deployment strategies
• Blue-Green
• Canary

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Blue-Green deployment

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Blue-Green deployment

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Blue-Green deployment

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Blue-Green deployment

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Blue-Green deployment

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Blue-Green deployment
Advantages
• Zero downtime
• Original environment is not impacted
• Quick and safe rollback

Disadvantages
• Added cost and time for creating new environment
• Operational overheads

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Canary deployment

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Canary deployment

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Canary deployment

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Canary deployment

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Canary deployment
Advantages
• Test new version with small amount of production traffic before committing
• Quick and safe rollback
• Zero downtime

Disadvantages
• Old version and new version should be compatible
• Added cost and time for creating cloned environment

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 Continuous deployment workflow

Merge PR Hook
into trunk pull code

Developer

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 Continuous deployment workflow

Merge PR Hook
into trunk pull code

Developer

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AWS CodePipeline
• Managed continuous delivery service
• Model and visualize release process
• Automated pipeline trigger on code
change
• Integrates with third-party tools

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AWS CodePipeline
Source Deploy-Staging

PullSource TestAPI
CodeCommit Runscope

QA-SignOff
Build Manual Approval

MyAppBuild NotifyDevelopers Review

CodeBuild Lambda
TriggerProd
TestAPI Lambda
Runscope

Deploy-Dev

DeployDev NotifyDevelopers
CodeDeploy Lambda Deploy-Prod

TriggerStaging Prod-ap-southeast
Lambda CodeDeploy

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