Deployment and Infrastructure Management Services

Question 1

CloudFormation

Answer 1

CloudFormation allows you to provision AWS resources using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Question 2

JSON Script: Format example

Answer 2

“MyBucket” : {
“Type” : “AWS::S3::Bucket”
}

JSON Script

Question 3

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Answer 3

IaC allows you to write a script to provision AWS resources. The benefit is that you provision resources in a reproducible manner that saves time.

Script can be written in JSON or YAML

Question 4

YAML Script: Format Example

Answer 4

MyBucket:
Type: AWS::S3::Bucket

YAML Script

Question 5

Elastic Beanstalk

Answer 5

Elastic Beanstalk allows you to deploy your web applications and web services to AWS.

Orchestration service that provisions resources. Automatically handles the deployment.

Quickly deploy a scalable Java-based web application to AWS.

Don’t forget Elastic Beanstalk is only used to deploy applications to the AWS Cloud — it is not used to deploy applications on-premises

Question 6

OpsWorks

Answer 6

OpsWorks allows you to use Chef or Puppet to automate the configuration of your servers and deploy code.

Deploy code and manage applications. Manage on-premises servers or EC2 instances in AWS Cloud. Works with Chef and Puppet automation platforms.

OpsWorks in the Real World: Automate software configurations and infrastructure management for your application.