Automation Flashcards
What is cloudformation
Manage and configure and provision AWS infrastructure as code.
What can you use to create cloudformation templates
YAML/JSON
What are the cloudformation template sections
Parameters Conditions Resources Mappings Tranforms
What section of the cloudformation template handles input of custom values?
Parameters
What section of the cloudformation template handles provisioning resources based on environment?
Conditions
What section of the cloudformation template handles identifying the AWS resources to create?
Resources
What section of the cloudformation template handles creating custom mappings?
Mappings
What section of the cloudformation template handles identifying reference code location
Transforms
What section of the cloudformation template is mandatory?
Resources
What service is used for deploying scaling web applications developed in many languages.
Elastic Beanstalk
What tools can you use with elastic beanstalk for performance metrics?
Cloudwatch XRay
What are the key benefits of elastic beanstalk?
Automatically applies updates for the EC2 OS
monitor and manage via dashboard
Integrates with cloudwatch and X-ray
What languages does elastic beanstalk use?
Java pHP Python Ruby Docket .net Node.js
What application server platforms does elastic beanstalk support?
Tomcat
Passenger
Puma
IIS
What service allows you to automate server configuration with puppet or chef?
OpsWorks