Deployment and Infrastructure Management Services Flashcards
What are deployment and infrastructure management services?
These services help you quickly stand up new applications, automate the management of infrastructure, and provide real-time visibility into system health.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Allows you to write a script to provision AWS resources. The benefit if that you provision resources in a reproducible manner that saves time.
What is CloudFormation?
Allows you to provision AWS resources using IaC.
Supports infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as Code
Provides a repeatable process for provisioning resources
Works with most AWS services
Create template for the resource you want to provision
What are some real world use cases for CloudFormation?
Automate the infrastructure-provisioning process for EC2 servers.
What is Elastic Beanstalk?
Allows you to deploy your web applications and web services to AWS. It is only used to deploy applications to the AWS Cloud – it is not used to deploy applications on-premises. *know for exam
Orchestration service that provisions resources
Automatically handles the deployment
Monitors application health via a dashboard
What are some real world use cases of Elastic Beanstalk?
Quickly deploy a scalable Java-based web application to AWS
After you upload your Java code, Elastic Beanstalk deploys it and handles capacity provisioning, load balancing, and Auto Scaling. Elastic Beanstalk even monitor the health of your application.
What is OpsWorks?
Allows you to use Chef or Puppet to automate the configuration of your servers and deploy code.
Can deploy applications on-premises, and it also automates infrastructure management using Chef or Puppet
Manage on-premises server or EC2 instances in AWS cloud
configuration for your application servers.
What are some real world use cases for OpsWorks?
Automate software configurations and infrastructure management for your application.
Allows you to define software installation scripts and automate
