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Automation tool types

Automation tool types - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Automation tool types

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- [Instructor] To build our automation for AWS applications, there are several categories or types of tools. And because there's so many different tools, you know I like to group things if you've listened to any of my courses so, let's take a look here. Tool types fall under these categories. Service Templates, so what they do is they allow you to put AWS service configuration into a code repository. So an example of this would be a set up call for an EC2 instance or a set up for a RDS database. Source Control is another tool type. This is a repository for all versions of your own application code. An example of this would be GitHub. Test Runners is yet another tool type. Now this is assuming that you write tests. We're going to talk quite a bit more about this as we proceed, because this is an important aspect of software product quality and automation. So if you've got tests, such as unit tests, then you'll generally use some sort of library or type of tool to run this test in an…

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