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3. & aoepeople!

4. 3 am

5. 9 am
3 am

6. Apache
PHP
MySQL
Redis
Varnish
Server
DNS
also, you‘re
probably
running into
resource issues...
If any of these
components
crashes
you have a
problem

7. Apache
PHP
MySQL Redis
Varnish
DNS

8. Apache
PHP
MySQL
Varnish
DNS
Redis
split cache,
fpc and
sessions

9. 4 Problems
Now you have

10. Single Point of Failure

11. Single Point of Failure
M
Multiple

12. Redundancy! Redundancy!
Solution?

13. Apache
PHP
MySQL
Varnish
Redis
DNS
Redundancy! Redundancy!
Apache
PHP
MySQL
Varnish
Redis

14. Apache
PHP
Apache
PHP
Apache
PHP
Shared File System?
Cron?
Deployments?
1 n

15. Apache
PHP
Apache
PHP
Apache
PHP
“Master“

16. Cloud

18. Reference
Architecture

19. Region
Availability
Zone
Availability
Zone
Availability
Zone

20. Varnish
Magento Backend Magento Worker
Database
(Multi-AZ)
Backend
Load Balancer
Frontend
Load Balancer
CloudFront
+ WAF
S3
Magento Frontend
…
Cache Sessions

21. Building Blocks

22. Inherent
FaultTolerant
AWS takes care...

23. Frontend
Load Balancer
Backend
Load Balancer
Varnish
Magento Frontend Magento Backend Magento Worker
Database
(Multi-AZ)
S3
CloudFront
+ WAF
…

24. Your
Job
Inherent
FaultTolerant

25. EC2

26. Auto-Scaling Group

27. The biggest problem with
Auto Scaling Groups
is that people assume that they are
about auto scaling,
which they are not!
https://cloudonaut.io/5-aws-mistakes-you-should-avoid/

28. Resilience
Auto-Healing

29. min
max
desired
absolutely no
manual interaction!

30. min = max* = desired = 1
*set max=2
if you want to
do rolling updates...

31. Type
c4.xlarge
Provisioning
Script
apt-get install lamp-server^
AMIami-47a23a30

32. AMI
Type
Provisioning
Script
ami-47a23a30
c4.xlarge
apt-get install lamp-server^
bake your
own AMIs

34. Frontend
Load Balancer
Backend
Load Balancer
Varnish
Magento Frontend Magento Backend Magento Worker
Database
(Multi-AZ)
S3
CloudFront
+ WAF
…
„disposable“

35. Connecting
without coupling them
the blocks

36. Route 53
/
API/SDK/CLI Consul
Service
magentodb.priv ->
d345....eu-west-1.rds.amazonaws.com
„find all instances with tags
type:Magento, env:stage “
Discovery

37. Monitoring
keep an eye on
all important metrics!

38. CloudWatch

40. you can’t
…and that’s ok!

41. Infrastructure
as Code
Test Coverage
Continuous
Integration
Automation
CloudFormation

42. know your
(infrastructure‘s)
limits!

43. choose the
right partners!

44. keep it simple, stupid!

45. not invented here syndrome

46. Follow me on twitter!
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