Automation Flashcards
allows you to provision resources quickly and consistently and manage them throughout their lifecycles, by treating infrastructure as code
CloudFormation
Service for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with a variety of supported languages
Elastic Beanstalk
Service gives you the ability to easily patch, update, manage, and configure your EC2 instances along with on-premise architecture
Systems Manager
Service that allows you to declare your AWS infrastructure as code
CloudFormation
everything is defined via a json or yaml file
template
is AWSTemplateFormatVersion required?
No
Section in a CloudFormation template that dynamically creates resources based on input values. Questions you are asking the user
Parameters
Section in a CloudFormation template used to look up values on different data points. Can Control or automatically fill in a value
Mappings
Section in a CloudFormation template that defines all resources in the account and their configuration requirements
Resources
Is the resource section required in a template for CloudFormation
yes
Section in a CloudFormation template that specify what information and values you want to output
Outputs
Section in a CloudFormation template that specifies one or more macros to modify the template before it is processed
Transform
Service used for creating immutable architecture
CloudFormation
Service that lets your developers worry about development
Elastic Beanstalk
Service is the main stop for everything PaaS related in AWS
Elastic Beanstalk
Service that deploys and scales your web applications
Elastic Beanstalk
Service is a suite of tools designed to let you view, control, and automate both you managed instances in AWS and on-premises
Systems Manager
Feature that allows communication between your instances and compute with the AWS Systems Manager service
Systems Manager Agent (SSM)
Feature of Systems Manager that allows a secure connection to your managed compute without needing SSH access
Session Manager
Feature of Systems Manager that allows you to log all usage during sessions to CloudWatch and CloudTrail
Logging
Feature of Systems Manager that allows you to store config data and secret values (IDS) in a hierarchical matter with parameter policies. Used to store IDS
Parameter Store
Stateless environment that can be easily picked up and thrown away and then reprovisioned. Disposable architecture
Immutable architecture
Used for when companies are looking for a simple solution to bundle and deploy applications. Should favor this over CloudFormation
Elastic Beanstalk
Feature of Systems Manager that are the primary method used in scenarios asking to configure the inside of an EC2 instance
Automation Documents (Systems Manager)
