Deploying Your AWS Application to the Cloud with Docker

Deploy code changes with little to no downtime. Discover how to build and deploy a serverless application on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using Docker.

Introduction

• Deploy your web apps with zero downtime
• Base knowledge

1. Setting Up Your Continuous Integration and Deployment Pipeline

• Deployment target architecture
• Creating your CodeCommit repository
• Uploading your code to CodeCommit
• Challenge: Clone and re-upload
• Solution: Remote code repositories

2. Building Docker Images with AWS CodeBuild

• Building your ECR Docker image repository
• Reviewing your project's Dockerfile
• CodeBuild buildspec file
• Creating a CI/CD pipeline for your CodeBuild project
• Setting CodeBuild permissions
• Challenge: CodeBuild external resources
• Solution: Pulling external resources into CodeBuild

3. CodeDeploy for Blue-Green Application Deployments

• Building the network infrastructure for your deployment
• Deploy a load balancer
• Update the IAM role for your load balancer
• Container task definition for your container
• Create an ECS cluster and service
• Challenge: Canary deployments
• Solution: Route 53 for canary deployments

4. Deployment, Execution, and Validation

• Blue-green deployment strategy
• Deploy a code change
• Validate deployment and post-deployment options
• Challenge: Failed deployment
• Solution: Rolling back your deployment

Conclusion

• Key takeaways and best practices
• Resources to keep learning