Preface

CI/CD has never been simple, but these days the landscape is more bewildering than ever, its terrain riddled with blind alleys and pitfalls that seem almost designed to trap the less-experienced developer. If you're determined enough to keep your balance on the cutting edge and are equipped with a resource like this book, though, the landscape of CI/CD is one that you will navigate with ease.

Accelerating DevSecOps on AWS will help you discover all the most modern ways of building CI/CD pipelines with AWS by placing security checks, chaos experiment, and AIOps stage in pipeline, taking you step by step from the basics right through to the most advanced topics in this varied domain.

This comprehensive guide wastes no time in covering the basics of CI/CD with AWS. Once you're all set with tools such as AWS CodeStar, Proton, CodeGuru, App Mesh, Security Hub, and CloudFormation, you'll dive into chaos engineering, the latest trend in testing the fault tolerance of your system using AWS Fault Injection Simulator. After that, you'll explore the advanced concepts of AIOps using AWS DevOps Guru and DevSecOps, two highly sought-after skill sets for securing and optimizing your CI/CD systems. The full range of AWS CI/CD features will be covered, including the Security Advisory plugin for IDEs, SAST, DAST, and RASP, giving you real, applicable expertise in the things that matter.

By the end of this book, you'll be confidently creating resilient, secure, and performant CI/CD pipelines using the best techniques and technologies that AWS has to offer.