AWS DevOps Competency

DevOps & Automation

Infrastructure as Code with Terraform & CDK. Automated CI/CD pipelines with CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and GitOps. From code commit to production in minutes with zero-touch deployments.

Infrastructure as Code

Everything as Code

Declarative infrastructure management with version control, peer review, and automated testing. No manual changes, ever.

Terraform

Multi-cloud IaC with HCL. State management in S3 + DynamoDB locking. Custom modules for reusable infrastructure patterns.

# EKS Module
module "eks" {
  source = "./modules/eks"
  cluster_version = "1.29"
  node_groups = var.node_config
}
  • • Terragrunt for DRY patterns
  • • Atlantis for PR automation
  • • tfsec/checkov for security scanning
  • • Terraform Cloud/Enterprise

AWS CDK

Define AWS infrastructure in TypeScript/Python with full IDE support, type safety, and composable L3 constructs.

// Serverless API
const api = new apigw.RestApi(this, 'Api');
const fn = new lambda.Function(this,
  'Handler', { runtime: Runtime.NODEJS_20 });
api.root.addMethod('GET', new apigw
  .LambdaIntegration(fn));
  • • CDK Pipelines for self-mutating CI/CD
  • • Aspects for compliance enforcement
  • • cdk-nag for security checks
  • • Construct Hub for shared patterns

CloudFormation

Native AWS IaC with StackSets for org-wide deployments, drift detection, and custom resources for extensibility.

# Stack Set deployment
Type: AWS::CloudFormation::StackSet
Properties:
  PermissionModel: SERVICE_MANAGED
  AutoDeployment:
    Enabled: true
  • • StackSets for multi-account
  • • Nested stacks for modularity
  • • Resource import
  • • Change sets for safe updates

CI/CD Pipeline Patterns

Production-ready pipeline architectures for containers, serverless, and infrastructure deployments.

EKS Deployment Pipeline

1 GitHub push → CodePipeline trigger
2 CodeBuild: lint, test, Docker build → ECR push
3 Update Helm chart values → ArgoCD sync
4 Rolling update → health checks → rollback on failure

Serverless Deployment Pipeline

1 Code push → SAM/CDK pipeline trigger
2 Unit tests → cdk synth → cfn-lint validation
3 Deploy to staging → integration tests
4 Canary deploy (10%→50%→100%) with alarms

Infrastructure Pipeline

1 PR opened → terraform plan (Atlantis/CodeBuild)
2 tfsec + checkov security scan → cost estimate
3 Peer review → approval → merge to main
4 terraform apply → state update → notification

GitOps with ArgoCD

1 Git repo = source of truth for cluster state
2 ArgoCD watches manifests repo for changes
3 Auto-sync or manual approval → apply to cluster
4 Drift detection → auto-remediation → alerts

DevOps Toolchain

CodePipeline

CI/CD orchestration

CodeBuild

Managed builds

Docker/ECR

Container registry

Helm/Kustomize

K8s packaging

GitHub Actions

Workflow automation

Snyk/Trivy

Security scanning

Grafana/Prometheus

Observability

Vault/Secrets Mgr

Secrets management

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