Deploying/Managing infrastructure @ scale

Question 1

What is CloudFormation

Answer 1

• declarative way of outlining your AWS
  Infrastructure
• CloudFormation creates the services for you, in the right order, with the exact configuration that you specify

Question 2

Benefits of AWS CloudFormation

Answer 2

• Infrastructure as code, Cost overview, Productivity, Supports (almost) all AWS resources

Question 3

AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)

Answer 3

• Define cloud infrastructure using language (zb. Java, Python, …)
• deploy infrastructure and application runtime code together
• great for Docker and Lambda

Question 4

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Answer 4

• developer centric view of deploying
  an application
• Beanstalk = Platform as a Service (PaaS)
• Managed service
• Just the application code is the responsibility of the developer

Question 5

Elastic Beanstalk – Health Monitoring

Answer 5

• Health agent pushes metrics to CloudWatch

Question 6

AWS CodeDeploy

Answer 6

• deploy our application automatically
• works with ec2, on-premises and hybrid services

Question 7

AWS CodeCommit

Answer 7

• like GitHub

Question 8

AWS CodeBuild

Answer 8

• Compiles source code, run tests, and produces packages that are ready to be deployed

Question 9

AWS CodePipeline

Answer 9

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

Question 10

AWS CodeArtifact

Answer 10

• secure, scalable, and cost-effective artifact management
• retrieve dependencies straight from
  CodeArtifact

Question 11

AWS Systems Manager (SSM)

Answer 11

• Helps you manage your EC2 and On-Premises systems at scale
• Hybrid AWS service
• No SSH access, bastion hosts, or SSH keys needed
• No port 22 needed (better security)