This document discusses continuous deployment of Rails applications on AWS OpsWorks. It begins with introductions and then covers: - Using SCRUM methodology for development - Git workflow with feature branches and pull requests - Tools for monitoring gems (Gemnasium) and code quality (CodeClimate, Travis CI) - An overview of AWS OpsWorks including stacks, layers, apps, and using Chef for automation - How OpsWorks deployments work by pulling from GitHub and running deployment hooks - Other AWS services that can be used like RDS, ElastiCache, S3 - Logging to external services like Loggly - Approaches for running background jobs like Sidekiq -