Deploying and Managing Infrastructure at Scale

Question 1

What is Cloud Formation?

Answer 1

• Infrastructure as Code
• Declarative definition of AWS Infrastructure
• JSON definition
• Can provision template across multiple accounts and regions
• Creates a Cloud Formation Template
• Template -> Cloud Formation -> Stack

Question 2

What are the benefits of Cloud Formation?

Answer 2

• No resources are manually created
• Configuration is reviewed through code
• Cost an be estimated using your Cloud Formation Template
• Can develop a savings strategy (delete template at 5, recreate at 8)
• Leverage existing templates

Question 3

What is Elastic Beanstalk?

Answer 3

• PAAS, Platform as a Service
• for Deploying an application
• Only application code is responsibility of developer
• Instance configuration / OS handled by amazon
• Is free service, but charged for instances created
• Supported by many platforms (Java, Go, Ruby, Python) but not all
• Elastic Beanstalk service does not publish any metrics to Amazon CloudWatch.
• Elastic Beanstalk health monitoring can determine that the environment’s Auto Scaling group is available and has a minimum of at least one instance

Question 4

What is AWS Code Deploy?

Answer 4

• Allows an application to be deployed/upgraded on both On-Premise and AWS EC2 instances
• Hybrid service (On-Premise and AWS)

Question 5

What is AWS System Manager (SSM) ?

Answer 5

• Hybrid AWS Service
• Insights on state of your infrstructure
• Manage/Operational level EC2+On Prem resources
• Layer between on-premise and AWS systems
• Allows Patching a fleet of servers and EC2 instances
• Allows run a command across this fleet
• Patching automation for enhanced compliance

Question 6

What is AWS OpsWorks

Answer 6

• Protects investment in Chef and Puppet (server configuration tools)
• Allows Chef and Puppet use with EC2 and On-Premise
• alternative to SSM

Question 7

What is CodeCommit?

Answer 7

• AWS ‘git hub’ repository

Question 8

What is CodeBuild?

Answer 8

• Build packages in cloud

- Integrated with CodeCommit

Question 9

What is CodePipeline?

Answer 9

• Orchestrate pushing code to production
• Code => Build => Test => Provision => Deploy
• CICD Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery

Question 10

What is CodeArtifact?

Answer 10

• Artifact management

- Store Code Dependencies (it’s like PiP)

Question 11

What is CodeStar?

Answer 11

• Manage all the capabilities of AWS Code… products

Question 12

What is Cloud9?

Answer 12

• its the AWS IDE