Question

A cloud engineer has just completed deploying a new three-tier web application into a production environment using an infrastructure-as-code template. The deployment reported success with no errors, and all compute instances, the load balancer, and the managed database were provisioned. Before handing the environment over to the business, the engineer needs to confirm the deployment actually works end to end. Which action is the MOST appropriate to validate the deployment?

Accepted Answer

Run a functional smoke test that exercises the full request path from the load balancer through the application tier to the database and back

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Compare the deployed resource IDs against the IaC template to confirm every resource was created

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Review the cloud provider's provisioning logs to confirm no API errors occurred during deployment

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Verify that the compute instances report a healthy status in the hypervisor console