AWS OpsWorks

Chris Barclay

Product Manager

Application Management Challenges

• Your app’s reliability and scalability are really important.

• The operational tasks needed to keep it running smoothly take time…

• As your app grows, routine operational tasks can become even more time-consuming and error-prone.

• Don’t want to tradeoff control or flexibility for ease of use.

• Provision

• Deploy

• Configure

• Monitor

• Scale

• Secure

Once upon a time…

Source: http://www.mixph.com/2008/10/how-to-make-donuts-food-business.html

This is what we want…

Source http://thethriftythings.com/2013/01/doughnut-heaven-with-krispy-kreme-2013-bloggers-summit.html

Recipes + Automation

Source www.ericjoyner.com

In today’s infrastructure, everything is code…

from the applications developers are writing, to

your configuration management tools, to

provisioning resources with CloudFormation

templates.

AWS OpsWorks

• Integrated application management solution for

ops-minded developers and IT admins

• Model, control and automate applications of

nearly any scale and complexity

• Management Console, SDKs, or CLI

• No additional cost

Why AWS OpsWorks?

SIMPLE

Easy to use, quickly get started and productive

PRODUCTIVE

Reduces errors with conventions and scripted configuration

FLEXIBLE

Simplifies deployments of any scale and complexity

POWERFUL

Reduce cost and time with automation

SECURE

Enables control with fine grained permissions

Example Customers

AWS OpsWorks gives us the tools we need to automate operations. We can scale Monster World, one of the largest Facebook games, to millions of users without ever needing more than two backend developers.

Jesper Richter-Reichhelm head of engineering, Wooga

Crashlytics uses AWS OpsWorks to support the rapid growth of our mobile crash reporting solution. With OpsWorks, we can focus on the development and growth of our service and not spend developer cycles on infrastructure and operational tasks.

Jeff Seibert CEO of Crashlytics

Software Deployment Options

Linux

JEE

Hibernate

Your Code

Struts

Apache

Tomcat

Linux

JEE

Hibernate

Your Code

Struts

Apache

Tomcat

Linux

JEE

Hibernate

Your Code

Struts

Apache

Tomcat

Image Container Layers OpsWorks Chef + custom AMIs

AWS Application Management Services

Elastic Beanstalk OpsWorks CloudFormation EC2

Convenience Control

Higher-level Services Do it yourself

What we’re going to show in the demo…

A stack represents the cloud infrastructure and applications that you want to manage together.

A layer defines how to setup and configure a set of instances and related resources.

Then deploy your app to specific instances and customize the deployment with Chef recipes.

Decide how to scale: manually, with 24/7 instances, or automatically, with load-based or time-based instances.

What is Chef and how does OpsWorks use it

• Chef is an open-source framework that automates software deployment and configuration.

• Whenever a change happens on your stack, or upon request, all instances are notified and recipes are run.

Recipes Lifecycle Events

Metadata

Chef recipes in action

Recipe

+

Metadata

=

Command

execute “mysql-connect” do command “/usr/bin/mysql -u#{node[:deploy][:myphpapp][:database][:username]} -p#{node[:deploy][:myphpapp][:database][:password]} #{node[:deploy][:myphpapp][:database][:database]} …

“deploy”: { “myphpapp”: { “database”: { “username”: “root”, “password”: “abcxyz”, …

“/usr/bin/mysql -uroot –pabcxyz myphpapp …

OpsWorks and Chef

• OpsWorks uses Chef Solo to configure the software on the instance

• OpsWorks provides many Chef Server functions to users. – Associate cookbooks with instances

– Dynamic metadata that describes each registered node in the infrastructure

• Supports "Push" Command and Control Client Runs

• With Chef 11, broader support for community cookbooks

Recent OpsWorks Launches

ELB support

CloudWatch metrics view

Chef 11 and Custom AMIs

Demo

Questions?

Thank you!

For more information, see us at https://aws.amazon.com/opsworks/