DevOps: CI/CD using AWS CodePipeline & Elastic Beanstalk

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Getting Started

Lecture 1: Welcome!

Lecture 2: How is the course structured?

Chapter 2: Introduction to Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment

Lecture 1: Section overview

Lecture 2: What is Continuous Integration?

Lecture 3: What is Continuous Delivery/Deployment?

Lecture 4: What is a CI/CD Pipeline?

Lecture 5: Why use CI & CD?

Lecture 6: Achieving Full Automation

Lecture 7: Section Summary

Chapter 3: CI/CD for Web Applications

Lecture 1: Section Overview

Lecture 2: Anatomy of a basic web application

Lecture 3: Designing a continuous deployment pipeline for a web application

Lecture 4: Managing Relational Database Changes and Deployments

Lecture 5: Deployments & Actions

Lecture 6: Monitoring

Lecture 7: Common Challenges

Lecture 8: Summary

Lecture 9: CI/CD Checklist

Lecture 10: Assignment: Design a pipeline

Lecture 11: Assignment: Example solution

Chapter 4: Setup Project: Let's setup a basic PHP web application

Lecture 1: Section Overview

Lecture 2: Quick Cloud9 IDE Overview

Lecture 3: Changes in Cloud9 IDE after AWS acquisition

Lecture 4: Building Fuzzy Telegram PHP Web Application

Lecture 5: Using Environment Variables in Applications

Lecture 6: Configuring MySQL Database using Environment Variables

Lecture 7: Writing Database Migration Scripts (Database Change Management Scripts for CD)

Lecture 8: Unit tests using PHPUnit

Lecture 9: Checking in to code repository (Github)

Chapter 5: Deploy Project: Setting up AWS Elastic Beanstalk & RDS

Lecture 1: Section Overview

Lecture 2: Setting up Elastic Beanstalk – Part 1

Lecture 3: Setting up Elastic Beanstalk – Part 2

Lecture 4: Elastic Beanstalk Dashboard Walkthrough

Lecture 5: Manually Deploying Application on Elastic Beanstalk

Lecture 6: Manual RDS / Database Deployment on Elastic Beanstalk

Lecture 7: Intro to Elastic Beanstalk Extensions (.ebextensions)

Lecture 8: Workshop: Creating .ebextension to run Database migration scripts

Lecture 9: Creating a new environment for "Production"

Lecture 10: Application Versions

Chapter 6: Setting up a CI/CD pipeline using AWS CodePipeline

Lecture 1: Section Overview

Lecture 2: First, let's commit everything in Github

Lecture 3: Creating a new pipeline on AWS CodePipeline

Lecture 4: AWS CodePipeline in Action

Lecture 5: Editing AWS CodePipeline and adding a new Stage

Lecture 6: Manually release a change in AWS CodePipeline

Lecture 7: Stage Transitions in AWS CodePipeline

Chapter 7: Adding actions in AWS CodePipeline

Lecture 1: Sequential and Parallel Actions

Lecture 2: Types of actions in AWS CodePipeline

Lecture 3: Input & Output Artifacts

Lecture 4: Four methods to run custom builds/actions in AWS CodePipeline

Chapter 8: Method # 1: Adding a custom deployment action to run unit tests

Lecture 1: Part 1 – Setting up a new stage and environment for unit testing

Lecture 2: Part 2 – Adding script to run unit tests in Elastic Beanstalk

Chapter 9: Method # 2: Invoking Lambda Functions in your AWS CodePipeline

Lecture 1: Part 1 – Create S3 Bucket for your assets

Lecture 2: Part 2 – Create Lambda Function to upload assets to S3

Lecture 3: Part 3 – Adding Lambda Function in AWS CodePipeline

Chapter 10: Method # 3: 3rd party integrations in AWS CodePipeline

Lecture 1: Workshop: Integrating GhostInspector for UI testing

Chapter 11: Real-life scenarios

Lecture 1: Adding a manual approval step in AWS CodePipeline

Lecture 2: Manually rolling back changes in AWS CodePipeline

Chapter 12: Monitoring your fully automated AWS CodePipeline

Lecture 1: Section Overview

Lecture 2: Workshop: Lambda Function to health check your web application

Lecture 3: Creating Alarms using CloudWatch

Chapter 13: Wrap-up

Lecture 1: Summary & Thank you!