Deploy Spring Boot services to AWS ECS Fargate with AWS CDK

About Deploy Spring Boot services to AWS ECS Fargate with AWS CDK

In this course you will create several microservices in

Java 21

, using the

Spring Boot V3

framework and

Docker

containers, building a backend application to interact with Amazon Web Services resources, as the mentioned below. These resources will be created in AWS using the

AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) V2

, a modern way to model and provision infrastructure in AWS. The AWS CDK is one of the best

infrastructure as code

, or

IaC

, tools for AWS;

Spring Boot V3

is a powerful

Java

framework to build server-side applications with annotations, controllers, services, request interceptors and much more. This course will cover the following AWS resources and tools with practical exercises:

AWS ECS:

the

Elastic Container Service

is the AWS container orchestration service. With this service it's possible to manage the Docker based microservices containers execution in a robust and scalable way. And with the

AWS Fargate

, the Serverless compute for containers from Amazon Web Services, it isn't necessary create EC2 instances, reducing the operating cost of container based applications;

AWS ECR:

with the Elastic Container Registry from AWS it's possible to create private repositories to store the microservices' container Docker images;

AWS VPC:

with the Virtual Private Cloud it's possible to secure the infrastructure with private subnets and network security policies for inbound and outbound traffic rules;

AWS ALB:

the Application Load Balancer from AWS allows the incoming HTTP traffic to be balanced between all the available application instances, and with the integrated target groups, each instance can be monitored to only receive traffic if it is healthy;

API Gateway REST:

with the AWS

API Gateway

it's possible to protect the application

REST API

, as well as performing query string parameter and requests' body validation;

CloudWatch Logs:

responsible for concentrating applications logs and its metrics. The applications that will be created in this course will generate logs into CloudWatch Logs in a JSON format, using the

log4j2

library. In this way, we can inject parameters in the logs, to be used in queries in the

AWS CloudWatch Logs Insights

console;

CloudWatch Alarms:

with the alarms from

CloudWatch

it will be possible to monitor the abnormal occurrences from the applications and AWS resources;

CloudWatch Container Insights:

with the

Container Insights

it's possible to aggregate monitoring information from the applications running in AWS ECS, including its logs;

DynamoDB:

the

DynamoDB

is a powerful NoSQL and non-relational database managed service. This course presents the usage of the

DynamoDB enhanced client

from the

AWS SDK V2 for Java,

which is a high-level library that allows a way to map client-side classes to DynamoDB tables;

SQS:

the SQS, or

Simple Queue Service

, is a queue service which allows asynchronous communication between applications, in order to exchange messages and events;

SNS:

with the SNS, or

Simple Notification Service

, it's possible to create topics and publish messages to be received by several resources and applications;

S3:

the S3, or

Simple Storage Service

, has a file storage with no server provisioning. Also, the S3 generates notifications when files are added to it;

X-Ray:

the

AWS X-Ray

is a service which allows analysis and debugging of distributed applications;

IAM:

the

Identity and Access Management

from AWS allows roles and permissions management, granted to users and services to access other AWS resources;

AWS Cost Explorer:

with the

Cost Explorer

from AWS it's possible to generate cost graphs about resource consumption, split by resource types and tags, which can identify applications and their parts. These resources will be created on AWS using the AWS Cloud Development Kit - CDK, a modern way of modeling and provisioning infrastructure on AWS using the

Java

language. The AWS CDK is ideal if you want to work in the

DevOps

and in the

infrastructure as code

fields. With this you will also learn how to use the

AWS SDK V2 for Java

, which is a set of libraries developed by AWS itself to use its services. The

AWS SDK V2 for Java

is fully integrated with the

Spring Boot

V3

framework and with

JDK 21

libraries, so it's very easy to access the AWS resources in an elegant way, creating operations to be execute concurrently. If you already have

AWS certification

and are looking for hands-on experience, you can get that with this course, through the exercises that will be offered here. This course has a good balance between

theoretical and practical exercises

. You can expect

detailed explanations with diagrams

and well-guided implementations, always with a well-defined purpose. Note: This course is not intended to prepare you for an AWS certification exam. There are other courses that are specific to AWS certifications.

Also included in the package, when you buy this course:

Student support

, through the platform questions and answers section;

Project source code

to help you at the beginning of the course;

Quizzes

to test your knowledge about course topics;

Practical exercises

to let you practice, with detailed solutions offered by the instructor;

About the instructor:

I've been worked daily with the presented technologies

in this course since 2016, acting as an AWS hosted solutions developer;

I've been a

profesor in cloud computing and mobile

subjects, including AWS, in a postgraduate course for almost 10 years;

I have

published books

on the subject;

I am part of the AWS Community Builder since 2020, a global community created by

Amazon Web Services.

Credits for the music used in the course presentation: Bensound - License code: 8XYDILY4RHGNN6VB