Integrating DevOps Tools into a CI/CD Pipeline in AWS

During this course, we will focus on building a secure CI/CD pipeline by integrating some well-known DevOps tools. In a typical production scenario, developers working on the same application push their new features to a common repository, which is represented most of the time by Git. In the next step, there comes the need for a continuous integration & building tool, such as Jenkins, whose job is to periodically perform polling activities to the Git repository, and when it senses there is a new commit, it takes a new application, performs some quality and security analysis of the code through the SonarQube app, then builds it with the help of the Maven plugin and sends the build artefacts to Ansible. Ansible packages these artefacts into Docker containers and deploys them on the production servers so that the application is accessible to the clients. All this process happens automatically, meaning that after developers push their new code to Git, the features should be seen by the end-user without any intervention from the Dev or Ops teams. The whole infrastructure that performs this process is hosted in the Athe WS cloud and created with the help of the most popular infrastructure provisioning tool, Terraform. Each independent server (Jenkins, Ansible, SonarQube, & application hosts) will also be monitored by Grafana, and alerts will be configured in the case of any malfunctions.