Getting Started with AWS OpsWorks

Thomas Lobinger, Technical Program Manager, AWS

March 18, 2015

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

Infrastructure as code

Reusable

Documented

Versioned

Tested

Your host today

Thomas LobingerTechnical Program Manager

for AWS OpsWorks

Application

Management

Services

Application management services

Convenience Control

AWS Elastic Beanstalk AWS OpsWorks AWS CloudFormation

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

as well as

AWS OpsWorks

can be controlled via

AWS CloudFormation.

AWS CloudFormation integration

OpsWorks Elastic Beanstalk

CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation integration

OpsWorks SQS VPC S3

CloudFormation

Stack

Layer / Services

Instances

HAProxy

Ruby

Node.js

Java

PHP

Static Web

Ganglia

Memcached

MySQL

Custom

Build-in Layers

Community provided Layers

Community provided Layers

Community provided Layers

Community provided Layers

Amazon RDS

Elastic Load

Balancing

Amazon CloudWatch

AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudTrail

AWS IAM

(users and profiles)

Deep service integration for

Integrate into 3rd party services

Technical deep dive

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

AWS OpsWorks Agent Events

setup configure deploy undeploy shutdown

Launch first instance

Setup triggers configure event

Deploy the static App

Add a database instance

Reconfigure Stack

Deploy and migrate database

Add more instances

Configure Stack

Execute recipes – any time

Stop instance

Configure Stack

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

& restartShip logs

DatabaseInstall

database

Sync DB

ACLs

Make

snapshot

Chef – configuration management

Open Source

Cookbooks

& recipes

Ruby DSL

Many tutorials and

resources on the web

Recipe setup.rb

package "apache2"

apache2 / recipes / setup.rb

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

Recipe setup.rb

package "apache2" do

action :install

end

apache2 / recipes / setup.rb

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

On-premises / multi cloud

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

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

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

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