Deployment and Infrastructure Mgmt Svcs

Question 1

IaC

Answer 1

Infrastructure as Code - you use scripts
Benefit: time-saving, reproducible

Question 2

What is CloudFormation?

Answer 2

Allows you to provision AWS resources using IaC
uses templates
Like EC2

Question 3

What is Elastic Beanstalk?

Answer 3

allows you to deploy your web apps and services to AWS
also has a health dashboard
NOT used for on-prem

Question 4

What is OpsWorks

Answer 4

Allows you to use Chef or Puppet to automate the configuration of your servers and deploy code
Chef and Puppet allow automation of server configuration
Can be on-prem or EC2 instances in the cloud