AWS Opsworks

AWS OpsWorks

AWS OpsWorks provides managed implementations of Puppet and Chef in a product which integrates with other AWS Products and services.

• 3 Modes
  • Puppet Enterprise - AWS Managed Puppet Master Server
    • desired state of the infra
  • Chef Automate - AWS Managed Chef Servers
    • infra as code with ruby
  • Opsworks - AWS Integrated Chef, No Servers
• Use when you already have one of them
• Requirement to automate... (suitable for infra engineer)
• Key terms to lookout for => Recipes, Cookbook or Manifests

Terms

• Stacks - Core Component : container of resources
• Layers - each layer is a specific function within a stack
• Recipes & Cookbooks
• Lifecycle Events - Setup, Configure, Deploy, Undeploy and Shutdown
• Instances - EC2/On-premise
  • 24/7
  • time-based
  • load-based
• Apps

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