AMI Factory

Capgemini's AMI Factory consulting offer provides customers with the capability to build scalable, highly reliable, and auditable AMIs with an automated solution. The solution is monitored using visual workflows for easy troubleshooting for developers, and developers are notified of each pipeline’s information. AMIs built undergo validations for identifying and rectifying common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs). Capgemini consultants also incorporate hardening measures included in Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmarks to make sure the AMIs are aligned with these practices once released from the pipelines.

AMI Factory helps build infrastructure as a code: developers can write their custom build and test cases and configure them in the pipeline. AMIs are configured based on the applications deployed, which are seamlessly integrated and can be directly deployed to environments from AMI Factory. Capgemini's AMI Factory solution begins with the creation of AWS CloudFormation templates that will create the infrastructure and pipelines required for the AMIs. Then Capgemini consultants push the artifacts of the AMIs to an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket.

AMI Factory uses version control tools (such as Bitbucket and Git) to keep track of the code base and templates to update the infrastructure setup. All the updates are triggered through the Jenkins pipelines for additional validations and to build the AMIs if all checks pass. The solution itself is triggered through integrations via Jenkins for generating the AMIs. The entire end-to-end process can be monitored using AWS Step Functions. Finally, all notifications are provided using Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS).