Deploying & Managing Infra @ Scale

Question 1

What allows you to outline your AWS infra and create them for you in the right order with the exact config?

Answer 1

CloudFormation

Question 2

What is CloudFormation an example of?

Answer 2

Infra as code

Question 3

What is a benefit of AWS CloudFormation?

Answer 3

Infra as code: control & review as code
Cost: tagging for cost mgmt + savings strategy
Productivity
Scalability
Supports almost all AWS resources

Question 4

What does CloudFormation Stack Designer allow you to see?

Answer 4

Resources & relations b/w components

Question 5

What allows a developer centric view of deploying and managing an application on AWS? What is this an example of?

Answer 5

Elastic Beanstalk (PaaS)

Question 6

What is the developer responsible for when using Elastic Beanstalk (PaaS)?

Answer 6

Application code

Question 7

What does Elastic Beanstalk (PaaS) support?

Answer 7

Docker and many languages

Question 8

How can you check for app health and publish health events?

Answer 8

Elastic Beanstalk Health Monitoring

Question 9

what can you use to deploy apps automatically when in hybrid?

Answer 9

CodeDeploy

Question 10

What is a pre-req to CodeDeploy?

Answer 10

Servers / Instances must be provisioned and configured ahead of time with the CodeDeploy Agent

Question 11

What does a Code Pipeline do?

Answer 11

Orchestrate the different steps to have the code automatically pushed to production

Question 12

What is Cloud9?

Answer 12

A cloud IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for writing, running and debugging code

Question 13

What helps you manage your EC2 and On-Premises systems at scale?

Answer 13

AWS Systems Manager

Question 14

What are the most important features of AWS Systems Manager?

Answer 14

For Hybrid:

Patch, configure, and run commands at scale

Question 15

What is a managed Chef & Puppet for hybrid?

Answer 15

AWS Ops Works