Skill

Perform Blue/Green Updates on Load Balanced EC2 Web Apps

August 2020 with Bart Castle

Join Bart Castle as he teaches you how to use Application Load Balancer (ALB) registration and deregistration in order to transition to the newest instance of a site, how to set up an Auto Scaling Target Group, how to use ASG scale out and scale in, and how to perform an update to a web application by updating the ALB listener rule.

Recommended Experience

A basic understanding of IT services and their uses in the AWS Cloud platform is recommended, but not required.
One year of hands-on experience designing available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, and scalable distributed systems on AWS is recommended, but not required.

Recommended Equipment

PC, MAC, or Linux system with Internet access
Free tier (or higher) account with AWS

Related Certifications

AWS Certified Developer – Associate (DVA-C01)

Related Job Functions

IT Professional
System administrator
Network administrator
System engineer
Network engineer

Bart Castle has been a CBT Nuggets trainer since 2018, and has more than a decade of cloud computing experience. He has received all the core Amazon Web Services certifications, and he’s one of the few instructors worldwide to earn AWS Authorized Instructor Champion status.

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