In Part I of this series, we depicted a fictional scenario for agile development using a simple “Hello World” application composed of just a single UI layer. During this fanciful (albeit contrived) exposition, we glossed over many of the underlying details for the sake of brevity. In this article, we will take a little peek under the covers and explain in more depth how we achieved rapid, automated deployments of immutable application containers to remote test environments.
This is the first of a two-part series that demonstrates a pain-free solution a developer could use to transition code from laptop to production. The fictional deployment scenario depicted in this post is one method that can significantly reduce operational overhead on the developer. This series will make use of technologies such as Git, Docker, Elastic Beanstalk, and other standard tools.