AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional Certification and Beyond by Adam Book

Author:Adam Book [Adam Book]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Published: 2021-11-25T00:00:00+00:00

Technical requirements

Although not necessary, familiarity with either the Chef or Puppet platform will be helpful when reading this chapter. It is required that you understand the different components of a full-stack application and how they interact with each other.

OpsWorks essentials

In Chapter 7, Using CloudFormation Templates to Deploy Workloads, we took a look at the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering from Amazon Web Services (AWS). Now we will look at one of the Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings from AWS, OpsWorks.

OpsWorks is, in essence, a wrapper around the automation packages Chef and Puppet. Why would you want to use OpsWorks? The following bullet points outline why you would choose to implement OpsWorks as a solution for your client or enterprise:

Simple: OpsWorks is easy to use.

Productive: OpsWorks helps reduce errors by using scripted configuration.

Flexible: Deployments of any size can be simplified by using OpsWorks.

Powerful: OpsWorks helps reduce both the time of deployment and the costs to deploy.

Secure: The OpsWorks service allows for fine-grained access control. Important note

OpsWorks is one of the few services that doesn't require a region. It is a global service that shows all stacks created, no matter what region your cloud resources are currently residing in.

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