In previous chapters, we spent a lot of time working on individual pieces of infrastructure building up little isolated pieces here and there, but in this chapter, we will try to put as many concepts together and build a minimally-viable Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). In the following sections, we will cover these topics:

• Configuration Management (CM) tooling
• Amazon Web Service (AWS) deployment
• Continuous integration/Continuous delivery (CI/CD)

As we build up the core of our services, we will see what it takes to take a small service and deploy it into the real cloud.

One thing to note here is that this chapter is provided as only a quick primer and a basic example on real deployments in the cloud since creating a full PaaS infrastructure with all the bells and whistles is something that is usually so complex that it takes large teams months or years sometime to work out all the problems. Compounding the issue, the solutions are usually very specifically tailored to the choices of services and orchestration tooling running on top of this and as such, consider things you see in this chapter as a sample of the current ecosystem that you could use in your own deployment but other tools may be better suited to your specific needs.