AWS Cloud Developer: Automating Application Development

Question 1

Continuous Integration

Answer 1

practice of streamlining developer code to a centralized source

Process in which code is tested, built into a Docker image, and deployed to a container registry.

Question 2

Continuous Deployment

Answer 2

practice of streamlining how code is released

Process in which our Docker image is deployed to containers.

Question 3

Least Privileged Access

Answer 3

providing the least amount of permissions necessary

Question 4

What is Travis

Answer 4

Travis is a tool that helps us with the CI process. It is used to build Docker images and push those images ot Docker hub

Question 5

Travis File

Answer 5

The Travis file is always named .travis.yaml and stored in the top-level of your git directory. This is detected by Travis CI and turned into a build pipeline.

Question 6

YAML

Answer 6

Yet another markup language a common way to programmatically write configurations. Sometimes referred to as YML.

Question 7

4 parts of Travis YAML file

Answer 7

language
services
before_script
script

Question 8

Environment Variables

Answer 8

Environment variables are a useful way to handle variables that shouldn’t be hard-coded into our application. These values are often credentials that shouldn’t be stored in the code.