Summary

This chapter was dedicated to helping organizations implement a DevOps approach to software development and deployment with the help of AWS CI/CD tools. The chapter emphasized the importance of DevOps, a philosophy that promotes collaboration and communication between developers and operations teams to expedite the delivery of high-quality software. It also introduced various AWS CI/CD tools, such as AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipeline. It demonstrated how these tools can be used to automate the software application’s build, test, and deployment.

Moreover, the chapter provided best practices for utilizing AWS CI/CD tools, including controlling access to resources with AWS IAM policies and regulating access to resources within each account with AWS resource-level permissions. The chapter concluded by emphasizing the significance of continuous improvement and the need to monitor and enhance the pipeline as the project evolves continually.