How do you automate operational tasks when managing your infrastructure on AWS, such as code deployment, software configurations, package installations, database setups, and server scaling? Using AWS OpsWorks, you can deploy and operate applications of all shapes and sizes. In addition, you can model your application stack with layers that define the building blocks of your application: load balancers, application servers, and databases. The webinar will accelerate your use of OpsWorks by helping you learn how to manage and configure instances, create and deploy applications, and monitor your resources using AWS OpsWorks. Learning Objectives: • How to model your application stack • How to manage and configure instances • How to create and deploy applications • How to automate operational tasks Who Should Attend: - Developers, - Dev-ops Engineers, - System Administrators

1. Getting Started with AWS OpsWorks
Thomas Lobinger, Technical Program Manager, AWS
March 18, 2015

2. AWS OpsWorks
 Model, control, and automate infrastructure of
any scale and complexity
 Deploy your application often, fast, and reliable
 Easy to start with pre-build configurations
 No additional cost running on AWS

3. Infrastructure as code
 Reusable
 Documented
 Versioned
 Tested

4. Your host today
Thomas Lobinger
Technical Program Manager
for AWS OpsWorks

5. Application
Management
Services

6. Application management services
Convenience Control
AWS Elastic Beanstalk AWS OpsWorks AWS CloudFormation

7. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
as well as
AWS OpsWorks
can be controlled via
AWS CloudFormation.
AWS CloudFormation integration
OpsWorks Elastic Beanstalk
CloudFormation

8. AWS CloudFormation integration
OpsWorks SQS VPC S3
CloudFormation

10. Stack

11. Layer / Services

12. Instances

13.  HAProxy
 Ruby
 Node.js
 Java
 PHP
 Static Web
 Ganglia
 Memcached
 MySQL
 Custom
Build-in Layers

14. Community provided Layers

15. Community provided Layers

16. Community provided Layers

17. Community provided Layers

18.  Amazon RDS
 Elastic Load
Balancing
 Amazon CloudWatch
 AWS CloudFormation
 AWS CloudTrail
 AWS IAM
(users and profiles)
Deep service integration for

19. Integrate into 3rd party services

20. Technical deep dive

21. Agent
 Installed on every instance
 Can execute different commands on an instance
 Sends keep alive messages for auto healing
 And 14 host level metrics every minute to
CloudWatch free of charge

22. AWS OpsWorks Agent Events
setup configure deploy undeploy shutdown

24. Launch first instance

25. Setup triggers configure event

26. Deploy the static App

27. Add a database instance

28. Reconfigure Stack

29. Deploy and migrate database

30. Add more instances

31. Configure Stack

32. Execute recipes – any time

33. Stop instance

34. Configure Stack

35. Example event matrix
Setup Configure Deploy Undeploy Shutdown
Load
Balancer
Install load
balancer
Sync app
server IPs
Drain
connections
App
Server
Install app
server
Update DB IP
& restart
Update app
code & restart
Remove app
& restart
Ship logs
Database
Install
database
Sync DB
ACLs
Make
snapshot

36. Chef – configuration management
 Open Source
 Cookbooks
& recipes
 Ruby DSL
 Many tutorials and
resources on the web

37. Recipe setup.rb
package "apache2"
apache2 / recipes / setup.rb

38. Resources describe
what to do or
define the desired state
Resources have
 attributes
 actions
cron "daily_report" do
minute "0"
hour "0"
day "*"
command "/daily_report"
action :create
end
Chef resources

39. Recipe setup.rb
package "apache2" do
action :install
end
apache2 / recipes / setup.rb

40. Recipe setup.rb
package "apache2" do
case node[:platform]
when "centos","redhat","fedora","amazon"
package_name "httpd"
when "debian","ubuntu"
package_name "apache2"
end
action :install
end
apache2 / recipes / setup.rb

41. On-premises / multi cloud

42. Prepare for large events
that exceed your own
data center capacity in
terms of infrastructure
or bandwidth.
Scale out existing infrastructure
On premise
AWS OpsWorks
DB read
DB write

43. Ease the load in your
existing data center by
moving environments to
AWS OpsWorks.
Provide in minutes as
many controlled and
secure stacks for test and
development to your QA
teams or developers.
Move test and dev to AWS OpsWorks
prod teststaging
dev1 dev2

44. Recipe setup.rb
...
if node["cloud"]["provider"] == "ec2"
Chef::Log.info("This is an EC2 instance.")
else
Chef::Log.info("This is an onprem instance.")
include_recipe 'onprem::tweaks'
end
...
apache2 / recipes / setup.rb

45. Keep in touch
@AWSOpsWorks on twitter
blogs.aws.amazon.com/application-management

46. Thank you very much for
joining the webinar today
Please give us feedback
@AWSOpsWorks
@TLobinger