Classic Solutions Architecture Discussions

Question 1

What type of DNS record do you need to point to a load balancer?

Answer 1

An Alias record because the IP address is changing all of the time.

Question 2

What is elastic beanstalk?

Answer 2

Elastic beanstalk is a managed service that automatically handles capacity provisioning, load balancing, scaling application health monitoring, instance configuration.

Question 3

What are the components of beanstalk?

Answer 3

Application: A collection of elastic beanstalk components (Environments, versions, configs..)

Application Version: An iteration of your application code

Environment - Collections of AWS resources runing an application version (only one at a time), Tiers: webserver environment tier and worker env tier,

You can create multiple environments (dev, test prod)

Question 4

What is the lifecycle of a beanstalk application

Answer 4

1. Create an application
2. Upload a version
3. Launch environment
4. Manage the environment

For new versions, repeat as needed from step 2