DevOps Engineering on AWS course material links

Please not that this is not a prep course for “AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional”!

This document contains links mentioned in the “DevOps Engineering on AWS” course.

Module 0: Course Overview

Full name: DevOps Engineering on AWS

Product code: 200-DEVOPS-37

These links are based on the course version 1.2.0.

Online and classroom course options: DevOps Engineering on AWS

The official course material: eVantage Bookshelf (VitalSource)

Additional material: Skill Builder

Module 1:

Module 2:

Websites

• CloudFormation template sections
• AWS CloudFormation best practices
• Security best practices for CloudFormation
• CreateStack
• Microservices
• Managing stacks across accounts and Regions with StackSets
• CloudFormation cfn-lint
• CloudFormation Fn::ImportValue
• AWS resource and property types reference
• Update CloudFormation stacks using change sets
• CloudFormation cfn-hup
• Prevent updates to stack resources
• DeletionPolicy attribute

Module 3:

Websites

• EC2 wait
• CloudFormation wait
• AWS CDK API Reference
• Amazon Q – Generative AI Assistant
• Accelerate your Software Development Lifecycle with Amazon Q
• Supported languages for Amazon Q Developer in the IDE
• Accelerate your Software Development Lifecycle with Amazon Q

Module 4:

Websites

• Bamboo
• Jenkins
• JetBrains
• How to Enable Caching for AWS CodeBuild
• Create a build project in AWS CodeBuild
• Buildspec file name and storage location
• Publish Docker image to an Amazon ECR image repository
• Using identity-based policies for AWS CodeBuild
• Use AWS CodeBuild with Jenkins
• AppSpec File structure
• ELB and ASG lifecycle event scripts
• Integrations with CodePipeline action types
• Invoke an AWS Lambda function in a pipeline in CodePipeline
• Create a pipeline in CodePipeline that uses resources from another AWS account
• AWS CodePipeline
• AWS CodePipeline product integrations

Module 5:

Module 6:

Websites

• Understanding Docker Container Architecture
• Dockerfile reference
• What is Docker?
• docker image tag
• A Better Dev/Test Experience: Docker and AWS
• Creating an Amazon ECS task definition using the console
• Example Amazon ECS task definitions
• Amazon ECS service definition parameters
• What is Amazon Elastic Container Service?
• Amazon ECS task networking options for the Fargate launch type
• Amazon ECS task networking options for the EC2 launch type
• The official CLI for Amazon EKS
• What is Amazon Elastic Container Registry?
• Amazon ECR private repositories
• Private repository policies in Amazon ECR
• Using Amazon ECR images with Amazon ECS
• Amazon ECR Now Supports Immutable Image Tags
• CloudBees Docker Build and Publish
• Set up a build pipeline with Jenkins and Amazon ECS
• Creating an Amazon ECS task definition using the console
• Amazon ECS service definition parameters
• Tutorial: Create a pipeline with an Amazon ECR source and ECS-to-CodeDeploy deployment
• Continuous Deployment to Amazon ECS using CodePipeline, CodeBuild, ECR, and CloudFormation

Module 7:

Websites

• What is AWS Lambda?
• Build Health Aware CI/CD Pipelines
• AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM)
• AWS SAM CLI command reference
• What Is the AWS Serverless Application Repository?
• Fine-grained Continuous Delivery With CodePipeline and AWS Step Functions

Module 8:

Websites

• Working with deployment configurations in CodeDeploy
• Introduction to DevOps on AWS
• Practicing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery on AWS
• Monitoring deployments with Amazon SNS event notifications

Module 9:

Websites

• Integrations with CodePipeline action types
• Test frameworks
• View test reports
• Automate the testing of your software applications at scale
• Tutorial: Create a pipeline that builds and tests your Android app with AWS Device Farm
• Serverless UI testing using Selenium, AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate, and AWS Developer Tools
• Automated CloudFormation Testing Pipeline with TaskCat and CodePipeline
• Using AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild, and AWS Lambda for Serverless Automated UI Testing
• Adding Ghost Inspector to Your Pipeline

Videos

• [AWS re:Invent 2014

  (PFC306) Performance Tuning Amazon EC2 Instances](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cyd22kOqWc)

Module 10:

Websites

• Amazon Web Services - Labs
• Create a service role for CodeDeploy
• Identity and access management for Amazon CodePipeline
• Using tags to control access to CodePipeline resources
• Security Warning – Pass role with star in action and resource
• AWS Well-Architected
• Use Parameter Store to Securely Access Secrets and Config Data in AWS CodeDeploy
• Scan images for software vulnerabilities in Amazon ECR
• Implementing DevSecOps Using AWS CodePipeline
• Scanning images with Trivy in an AWS CodePipeline
• Scanning Docker Images for Vulnerabilities using Clair, Amazon ECS, ECR, and AWS CodePipeline
• Amazon CodeGuru features
• cloudformation-guard

Module 11:

Websites

• AWS Config features
• Announcing AWS Config Custom Rules using Guard Custom policy
• How to Audit Your AWS Resources for Security Compliance by Using Custom AWS Config Rules
• Conformance Pack Sample Templates
• AWS Systems Manager
• AWS Systems Manager FAQs
• What is AWS Systems Manager?
• AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager
• Systems Manager Automation runbook reference
• Systems Manager Automation actions reference
• Automating Blue/Green Deployments of Infrastructure and Application Code
• Remediating Noncompliant Resources with AWS Config
• Remediate noncompliant AWS Config rules with AWS Systems Manager Automation runbooks
• Automate OS Image Build Pipelines with EC2 Image Builder
• How to Create an AMI Builder with AWS CodeBuild and HashiCorp Packer

Module 12:

Websites

• Amazon CloudWatch: Graph a metric
• Amazon CloudWatch: StartQuery
• AWS CLI: put-log-events
• AWS X-Ray: Downloading the daemon

Module 13: Course Wrap-Up

Websites

• Serverless Architectures with AWS Lambda
• How AWS Pricing Works
• Back to Basics
• AWS Support
• AWS Certification exam preparation
• AWS Certification
• AWS Certification exams
• AWS Recertification
• Schedule an Exam
• AWS Ramp-Up Guides

Courses

• Advanced Developing on AWS
• Developing Serverless Solutions on AWS
• Build Modern Applications with AWS NoSQL Databases
• Getting Started with DevOps on AWS
• AWS Cloud Development Kit Primer
• AWS Skill Builder
• AWS Skill Builder courses
• AWS Builder Labs
• AWS Workshops
• Classroom training

Videos

• Tech Talks