Learning AWS Day by Day — Day 69 — Amazon OpsWorks

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Day 69

Amazon OpsWorks

What is configuration Management?

• main purpose is to automate server management.

What is OpsWorks?

• configuration management tool that lets you configure and operate applications on cloud.
• you have the option of choosing between Chef or Puppet.

Benefits:

• supports any application
• automation to run at scale
• configuration as code
• resource organization

Services:

• AWS OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise — lets you create AWS-managed-puppet-master servers.
• AWS OpsWorks for Chef automate — lets you create AWS managed-chef-server.
• AWS OpsWorks Stacks — provides a flexible way to create and manage application stacks.

AWS OpsWorks Stacks:
Stacks: top-level entity, represents collection of instances used for same purpose, like nginx or apache.
Layers: each stack has layer, which describes a component, like load balancer or database component.
Instances: compute resource like EC2, helps in hosting servers, and serving load balancers.
Apps: represents the code that you want to run on the server, apps has the information required to deploy the code to app servers.

Comments

[Christopher Wright]

Great breakdown of Amazon OpsWorks! Configuration management is definitely key for automating server tasks. Thanks for sharing the insights!