Lab - Deploying Software to Amazon EC2 with AWS CodeDeploy

In this lab, you learn and practice the concepts and configuration of AWS CodeDeploy to install a web application package on Amazon Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances in both developing/testing and production environments. The lab covers different topics like deployment options, configuration parameters, and monitoring of the AWS CodeDeploy service.

Objectives

• Configure Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) to provide deployment notifications.
• Configure CodeDeploy to deploy different versions of the application code to developing/testing and production environments.
• Configure CodeDeploy to deploy application code to EC2 instances using in-place and blue/green deployments.
• Monitor and troubleshoot CodeDeploy deployments issues.
• Explore different CodeDeployment features.

Prerequisites

To successfully complete this lab, student should have a basic knowledge of:

• Navigating through the AWS Management Console.
• Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• AWS Cloud9.

Outline

Task 1: Subscribe to SNS topic

Task 2: Configure CodeDeploy to push the initial version of the application code to the Developing/Testing environment

Task 3: Configure CodeDeploy to push the initial version of the application code to the Prod environment

Task 4: Deploy an updated version of the application code to the Developing/Testing environment

Task 5: Deploy an updated version of the application code to the production environment using blue/green deployment type