Deployment and IT Infrastructure Management Services

Question 1

Deployment and IT Infrastructure Management services

Answer 1

services that quickly help you:

• stand up new applications
• automate the management of infrastructure
• provide real-time visibility into system health

Question 2

IaC

Answer 2

Infrastructure as Code

• allows you to write a script to provision AWS resources
• written in JSON or YAML

Question 3

Benefits of IaC

Answer 3

• provision resources in a reproducible manner

- saves time

Question 4

Cloud Formation

Answer 4

provision AWC resources using IaC

• provides a repeatable process
• works with most AWS services
• create templates for the resources you want to provision

Question 5

Example use case for Cloud Formation

Answer 5

automate your infrastructure provisioning process for EC2 servers

Question 6

Elastic Beanstalk

Answer 6

a complete orchestration service that provisions resources

• automatically handles deployment (load balancing, scaling, capacity provisioning)
• monitors the health of your application

Question 7

Where does Elastic Beanstalk run?

Answer 7

Only in the cloud

Cannot do on-prem

Question 8

OpsWorks

Answer 8

automates the configuration of your servers and deploys code

• manage applications
• manage on-prem servers or EC2 instances
• works with Chef and Puppet automation platforms
• define software installation scripts and automate configuration for your application servers