This document provides instructions for setting up auto scaling for an application on AWS using OpsWorks in under 10 minutes. It discusses key AWS services like EC2, ELB, and RDS. It also explains OpsWorks components like stacks, layers and instances. The steps shown include creating an OpsWorks stack, layers, instances, importing a sample app from GitHub, and configuring auto scaling based on load and time using OpsWorks built-in capabilities.

1. Auto Scaling
Applications in
10 MinutesJuan Basso @jrbasso
System Architect - Zumba Fitness

2. Ingredients
AWS Account
AWS OpsWorks
Chef Cookbooks
Your Awesome App
Some Money
Patience

3. Some Terms
AWS: Amazon Web Services
EC2: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
ELB: Elastic Load Balancing
RDS: Amazon Relational Database Service

4. Architecture Evolution

5. Starting

6. Separate the Load

7. More Instances for the Load

8. Auto Scaling

9. Getting There With OpsWorks

10. What is OpsWorks?
Free Tool with AWS Account
Simple Interface for Setup the Deployment
Easy Setup of Auto Scaling
DevOps Application Management Service

11. What is Necessary?
AWS Account
Application in Some Repository
Create Chef Cookbooks
Put the Cookbooks on Some Repository

12. Chef Cookbooks???
node[:deploy].each do |application, deploy|
include_recipe 'apache2::service'
execute 'Setup PHP default timezone' do
action :run
command "
sed -i 's/;date.timezone.*/date.timezone = UTC/g'
`php -r 'echo php_ini_loaded_file();'`
"
user 'root'
notifies :reload, resources(:service => "apache2"), :delayed
end
end

13. Components
Stack
Layers
Instances
Application

14. OpsWorks Step-By-Step

15. Links and Configs
Application: git://github.com/croogo/croogo.git (tag v1.5.3)
Cookbook: git://github.com/jrbasso/croogo-cookbook
Setup: cakephp::setup
Configure: php::timezone_cfg
Deploy: croogo::installand
php::timezone_cfg
Create the RDS and ELB beforehand
Import database data
PS: Sessions are going to be stored on DB

16. Create the Load Balancer

17. Create the Database

18. Welcome Page from OpsWorks

19. Creating the Stack (Part 1)

20. Creating the Stack (Part 2)

21. Creating PHP Layer

22. Configuring PHP Layer

23. Before Setup Instances

24. Creating the Instance

25. 24/7 Instance Created

26. Created Load and Time Based
Instances

27. Setting Up Time Based
Instances

28. Setting Up Load Based
Instances

29. Creating Application

30. Application Created

31. Monitoring Servers

32. Auto Starting a Load Instance

33. Questions?