Yet another CI/CD pipeline for containerized API application to AWS!

Overview

Join our enjoyable workshop designed to elevate your Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) practices! Here’s what you will dive into:

• Experience the simplified trunk-based development branching strategy to reduce merge conflicts and make code reviews easier.
• Craft and optimize automation pipelines using GitHub Actions, leveraging job parallelism, dependency caching, merge queue, and concurrency group techniques.
• Implement blue/green deployment with AWS CodeDeploy to minimize application deployment downtime.

In addition, a simple ChatOps approach will be used to centralize the pipeline and deployment results to Slack channels.

And that’s just the beginning! This workshop will unlock even more AWS services to enhance your containerized application’s reliability and performance. Don’t miss out!

You might implement the following AWS architecture. Exciting, right?

If you need complete control over the view of the image, check here.

You might notice that the VPC is primarily private, with no public subnets or Internet Gateway configurations. In this workshop, you are going to discover how to securely access private resources from the outside and how these resources initiate connections with other AWS services!

This workshop is inspired my own ideas and one of my favorite books, continuous delivery by Christie Wilson. This book explores the essentials of continuous delivery and provides practical examples for applying these concepts. Give it a read if you are interested in accelerating the software delivery process with any stack.

Target Audience

This beginner-level workshop is designed primarily for individuals in technical roles, but anyone interested in learning how to implement a CI/CD pipeline for a containerized Java API application will find it beneficial.

To participate in this workshop, the following prerequisites are recommended:

• An AWS account with administrative access.
• A GitHub account.
• Familiarity with GitHub and GitHub Actions.
• Basic understanding of the AWS CLI and related services.
• Experience with Spring-based API development and Docker (helpful but not required).
• Basic knowledge of Shell and Git commands.

You do not need deep knowledge on any of these, and if needed, you can research them as you go!

Duration

The estimated duration for completing this workshop is around 6 hours.

Costs

The services used in this workshop charge per usage, although most of them have a free tier, so unless you used the free tier for other workloads, it will cost you around $2.0 to run this workshop. Please look at the different services’ pricing pages to see their cost.

Main Content

1. Introduction
2. Tool-Agnostic Concepts
3. High-Level Design
4. Preparation
5. Create AWS ECR
6. Create Application Load Balancer
7. Create AWS ECS Resources
8. Create Network Load Balancer
9. Create AWS API Gateway Resources
10. Create AWS RDS Resources
11. Your First CI Workflow Executions
12. Branch Protection With Ruleset
13. Experiments With GitHub Actions Merge Group
14. Experiments With GitHub Actions Concurrency Group
15. Set Up Slack Notifications
16. Your First Release Workflow Executions
17. Test AWS RDS Failover
18. Your First Rollback Workflow Executions
19. Clean Up
20. Further Improvements

We welcome your suggestions or improvements! If you have any feedback while running this workshop, feel free to send us an email to tu.lna07@gmail.com.