This document introduces an open source AEM platform for running AEM on cloud infrastructure like AWS. It is based on the authors' experience with 5 AEM on AWS projects. The platform includes tools for baking AMIs, building AEM stacks, and managing AEM instances. It supports multiple AEM versions and architectures. All components are open source and available on GitHub under an Apache 2 license. The goal is to allow users to benefit from shared upgrade and testing efforts while competing on applications rather than infrastructure.

1. OPEN SOURCE AEM PLATFORM:
A SHORT INTRO
Cliffano Subagio (@cliffano) - Shine Solutions

2. THE PLATFORM
• AEM ENVIRONMENT
ON CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE
• BASED ON EXPERIENCE
FIVE AEM ON AWS PROJECTS
BY SHINE SOLUTIONS SINCE 2014
• MULTI AEMVERSIONS
MULTI ARCHITECTURES
MULTI PERMISSION RESTRICTIONS
MULTI OPERATING SYSTEMS
MULTI CLOUD?
• OPEN SOURCE - APACHE 2 LICENSE
80K LOC

3. WHY OPEN SOURCE?
• COMMUNITY MEMBERS
BENEFIT EACH OTHER
• COMPETE ON APPLICATIONS
NOT INFRASTRUCTURE
• SHARED UPGRADE EFFORT
• MORE EYES
FEWERVULNERABILITIES

4. ZERO MARKETING (THUS FAR)
WHO FOUND US?

5. SOFTWARE STACK
AEM
SWAGGER_AEM SWAGGERAEM4J
RUBY_AEM ORCHESTRATOR
PUPPET-AEM-RESOURCES
PUPPET-AEM-CURATOR
PACKER-AEM STACK-BUILDER

6. OPEN SOURCE BUILD FLOW
GITHUB
AWS CODE BUILD
PUPPET FORGE
MAVEN CENTRAL
TRAVIS CI
PYPI
RUBYGEMS.ORG
NPM
CHEF SUPERMARKET

7. TRAVIS CI

8. USER BUILD FLOW
GITHUB
PUPPET FORGE
MAVEN CENTRAL
PYPI
RUBYGEMS.ORG
NPM
CHEF SUPERMARKET
ARTIFACT REPO
AWS S3
AWS AMIs
CI

9. PACKER-AEM
100% SUCCESS RATE

10. AMI BAKING
EC2
OUTBOUND PROXY
PUBLIC REPOS
PRIVATE SUBNET
INSTANCE PROFILE
with limited permissions
SOE AMI
PACKER-AEM
CI/CD
ARTIFACT REPO
S3 AMI

11. STACK BUILDING
AEM 6.2
CONSOLIDATED
ONLY
PUBLISH-DISPATCHER ELB
ON PUBLIC SUBNET
INSTANCE PROFILE
with limited permissions
SOE AMI
STACK-BUILDER
CI/CD
ARTIFACT REPO
AEM 6.3
CONSOLIDATED
AEM 6.2
FULL-SET
AEM 6.3
FULL-SET

12. STACKS MAPPING
NETWORK
CONSOLIDATED
PREREQUISITE
CONSOLIDATED
PREREQUISITE
CONSOLIDATED
MAIN
CONSOLIDATED
MAIN
CONSOLIDATED
MAIN
FULL-SET
PREREQUISITE
FULL-SET
MAIN
1:N
1:1

13. AEM FULL-SET
AUTO RECOVERY
AUTO SCALING
SEPARATION OF
CONCERNS
MULTI ZONES
CHAOS

14. AEM CONSOLIDATED
‘SMALL ENOUGH’
MULTI AEM INSTANCES
on a single server

15. AEM STACK MANAGER
ENABLE/DISABLE CRXDE
PACKAGES DEPLOYMENT
BACKUP EXPORT/IMPORT
PROMOTE AUTHOR STANDBY
FLUSH DISPATCHER CACHE
LIVE/OFFLINE SNAPSHOT
LIVE/OFFLINE COMPACTION

16. WHAT’S NEXT
• MORE MORE MORE
AUTOMATED TESTS
• AEM 6.4 BETA PREPARATION
• CENTOS 7
AMAZON LINUX 2

17. QUESTIONS?

18. LINKS
• https://github.com/shinesolutions/packer-aem
• https://github.com/shinesolutions/aem-aws-stack-builder
• https://shinesolutions.com