What does the development environment to production pipeline look like? In this presentation we look at all the tools and services needed to effectively build and deploy applications!

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The Serverless Path From Dev to Production
Chase Douglas, CTO
chase@stackery.io
@txase

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My Background
Brought Multi-Touch Input Support To The Linux Desktop
Technical Architect of New Relic Browser
CTO and Co-founder of Stackery

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What I’ve Seen
Business Impeded Because
Infrastructure/Processes Couldn’t
Scale
Engineering Orgs That Don’t Know
What Has Been Deployed Where

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Spent Years Figuring Out
Best Practices For Serverless

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Come on Chase…

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Spent Years Figuring Out Best Practices
For Modern Application Development
Using Managed Services
That Provide Opinionated Event-Driven Interfaces

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Thanks Chase!

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Serverless is this new thing
We need to rethink how we
build, deploy, and operate

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You may have been to a conference
where the presenter shows off
their impressive serverless architecture

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But how did they get there?

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People often ask us:
How do you build a serverless CI/CD pipeline?

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What they are actually asking:
How do we build a dev to production pipeline?

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We’re here today to answer that question!

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Functions / Containers
Anatomy of a Serverless App
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Business Logic

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Anatomy of a Serverless App
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Business LogicFunctions/Containers
Managed Cloud
Services
S3 Storage Bucket
Cognito
Authentication
Other Cloud
Service…
DynamoDB
Table

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Anatomy of a Serverless App
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Business LogicFunctions/Containers
Managed Cloud
Services
What dependencies should this app use in each dev,
test, staging, or prod environment?
Production vs
test database?
New VPC or
existing?
Logging service? Credentials?
Environments:
Namespace for
each deployment
target
S3 Storage Bucket
Cognito
Authentication
Other Cloud
Service…
DynamoDB
Table

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Should you
replicate AWS on
a laptop?

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Today – the lifecycle of a serverless app is complex
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Your CI/CDYour IDE
Your Git Provider
Your Function Code

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Today – the lifecycle of a serverless app is complex
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Your CI/CDYour IDE
Your Git Provider
Your Function Code
AWS SAM serverless

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Today – the lifecycle of a serverless app is complex
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Your CI/CDYour IDE
Your Git Provider
Your Function Code
AWS Cloudformation
Your AWS Console
Your AWS Account
Your AWS
Credentials
AWS SAM serverless

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Today – the lifecycle of a serverless app is complex
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Your CI/CDYour IDE
Your Git Provider
Your Function Code
AWS Cloudformation
Your AWS
Parameter
StoreAWS Cloudformation
Your AWS Console
Your AWS Account
Your AWS
Credentials
serverlessAWS SAM

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Today – the lifecycle of a serverless app is complex
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Your CI/CDYour IDE
Your Git Provider
Your Function Code
Your AWS
Secrets
Manager
AWS Cloudformation
Your AWS
Parameter
StoreAWS Cloudformation
Your AWS Console
Your AWS Account
Your AWS
Credentials
serverlessAWS SAM

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Today – the lifecycle of a serverless app is complex
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Your CI/CDYour IDE
Your Git Provider
Your Function Code
App Code +
dependencies
packaged artifact
Your AWS
Secrets
Manager
AWS Cloudformation
Your AWS
Parameter
StoreAWS Cloudformation
Your AWS Console
Your AWS Account
Your AWS
Credentials
serverlessAWS SAM

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Today – the lifecycle of a serverless app is complex
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Your CI/CDYour IDE
Your Git Provider
Your Function Code
Cloudwatch X-Ray,
&
3rd Party Monitoring
App Code +
dependencies
packaged artifact
Your AWS
Secrets
Manager
AWS Cloudformation
Your AWS
Parameter
StoreAWS Cloudformation
Your AWS Console
Your AWS Account
Your AWS
Credentials
serverlessAWS SAM

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Today – the lifecycle of a serverless app is complex
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Your CI/CDYour IDE
Your Git Provider
Your Function Code
AWS Cloudformation
Your AWS Console
Your AWS
Credentials
App Code +
dependencies
packaged artifact
Cloudwatch X-Ray,
&
3rd Party MonitoringAWS
Parameter
Store
AWS
Parameter
Store
Your AWS
Parameter
Store
AWS Secrets
ManagerAWS Secrets
Manager
Your AWS
Secrets
Manager
Your AWS
AccountAWS
Cloudformati
on
Your AWS
AccountAWS
Cloudformati
on
Your AWS
AccountAWS
Cloudformati
on
Your AWS Account
US-West2
Dev #1
US-East1
Staging #1
serverlessAWS SAM

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Today – the lifecycle of a serverless app is complex
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Compose & Edit
Architecture &
Functions
Environment
Configuration
Build & Package OperatePromote to Prod
Deploy in Dev
/ Test
Your CI/CDYour IDE
Your Git Provider
Your Function Code
AWS Cloudformation
Your AWS Console
Your AWS
Credentials
App Code +
dependencies
packaged artifact
Cloudwatch X-Ray,
&
3rd Party MonitoringAWS
Parameter
Store
AWS
Parameter
Store
Your AWS
Parameter
Store
AWS Secrets
ManagerAWS Secrets
Manager
Your AWS
Secrets
Manager
Your AWS
AccountAWS
Cloudformati
on
Your AWS
AccountAWS
Cloudformati
on
Your AWS
AccountAWS
Cloudformati
on
Your AWS Account
US-West2
Dev #1
US-East1
Staging #1
serverlessAWS SAM

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Today – the lifecycle of a serverless app is complex
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Compose & Edit
Architecture &
Functions
Environment
Configuration
Build & Package Operate
Cloudwatch X-Ray,
&
3rd Party Monitoring
Your AWS ConsoleAWS
Parameter
Store
AWS
Parameter
Store
Your AWS
Parameter
Store
AWS Secrets
ManagerAWS Secrets
Manager
Your AWS
Secrets
Manager
App Code +
dependencies
packaged artifact
AWS Cloudformation
Your CI/CD
Promote to Prod
Deploy in Dev
/ Test
Your AWS
AccountAWS
Cloudformati
on
Your AWS
AccountAWS
Cloudformati
on
Your AWS
AccountAWS
Cloudformati
on
Your AWS Account
US-West2
Dev #1
US-East1
Staging #1
Your AWS
Credentials
Your IDE
Your Git Provider
Your Function Code
serverlessAWS SAM

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Accelerating with Stackery
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Compose & Edit
Architecture &
Functions
Environment
Configuration
Build & Package Operate
Cloudwatch X-Ray,
&
3rd Party MonitoringYour AWS ConsoleAWS
Parameter
Store
AWS
Parameter
Store
Your AWS
Parameter
Store
AWS Secrets
ManagerAWS Secrets
Manager
Your AWS
Secrets
Manager
App Code +
dependencies
packaged artifact
AWS Cloudformation
Your CI/CD
Promote to Prod
Deploy in Dev
/ Test
Your AWS
AccountAWS
Cloudformati
on
Your AWS
AccountAWS
Cloudformati
on
Your AWS
AccountAWS
Cloudformati
on
Your AWS Account
US-West2
Dev #1
US-East1
Staging #1
Your AWS
Credentials
Stackery Visual and YAML
AWS Service Template
Composer & Editor
Stackery
Environment Editor
Stackery Package &
Builder
Stackery Environment Management
Stackery Operations
Console
Stackery AWS Role
Limited Permission Butler
Stackery CLI
Your IDE
Your Git Provider
Your Function Code
Infrastructure As Code For Managed Services
&
Environment Parameters and Secrets Management
&
Workflows and Dashboards that Scale across Enterprise Organizations
Stackery VS Code Plugin
AWS SAM serverless

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Let’s Break It Down!

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First: Architect Application

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Start With IaC For Infrastructure
Compose & Edit
Architecture &
Functions
AWS
SAM
serverless.yml
AWS Cloudformation
Stackery Visual and YAML
AWS Service Template
Composer & Editor
Your IDE
Your Git Provider
Your Function Code
Stackery VS Code Plugin

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AWSAcc1 AWSAcc2 AWSAcc2 AWSAcc3 AWSAcc3
Environments x Teams x Devs x Services x AWS regions
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Dev-Sam Test 1 Stage 2a Production US-West2 Production US-East1
Dev-Chase Test 2
Dev-Danelle Test 2 Chaos-Danelle
N’Dev

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There’s A Better Way

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One Template, Parameterized
AWS SSM Parameter Store

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One Template, Parameterized
SAM Template

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New VS Code Integration!

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Next: CI / CD

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Need A Way To Build Function Packages And Upload

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AWS SAM Build
Builds All Your
Functions In Your
Template
Uploads Templates
To CloudFormation

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Now We Just Need A Pipeline

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CI / CD Pipeline

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Next We Need Monitoring

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Monitoring Solutions
AWS X-Ray
AWS CloudWatch Epsagon

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But Monitoring Tools Require Instrumentation
How Can We Automate Instrumentation?

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Ensure AWS
Monitoring
Switches Are
Enabled

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AWS Lambda Layers For Third-Party Tools

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Automated Monitoring Instrumentation
+
Integrations

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Finally: How To Rapidly Iterate Code

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Need Three Things For Rapid Iteration

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Code Execution Environment

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Function Configuration For Service Discovery

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Same Permissions As In The Cloud

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Now You’re Set To Take On The World!

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If You Want To Learn How To Serverless
With Confidence…
Sign Up For Free At
stackery.io

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Thank you
Chase Douglas, CTO
chase@stackery.io
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