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Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure

By : Yohan Wadia, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan, Udita Gupta
Book Image

Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure

By: Yohan Wadia, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan, Udita Gupta

Overview of this book

With this Learning Path, you’ll explore techniques to easily manage applications on the AWS cloud. You’ll begin with an introduction to serverless computing, its advantages, and the fundamentals of AWS. The following chapters will guide you on how to manage multiple accounts by setting up consolidated billing, enhancing your application delivery skills, with the latest AWS services such as CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline to provide continuous delivery and deployment, while also securing and monitoring your environment's workflow. It’ll also add to your understanding of the services AWS Lambda provides to developers. To refine your skills further, it demonstrates how to design, write, test, monitor, and troubleshoot Lambda functions. By the end of this Learning Path, you’ll be able to create a highly secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable environment for your applications. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • AWS Administration: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition by Yohan Wadia • AWS Administration Cookbook by Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan • Mastering AWS Lambda by Yohan Wadia, Udita Gupta
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Working with State Manager


State Manager is a powerful tool that helps to govern and manage the configuration of a managed system. For example, by using State Manager you can enforce a particular firewall rule for your fleet of managed instances and set that as the required State that needs to be enforced at all times. If the rules change outside of State Manager, it will automatically revert to match the required state's configuration, thus maintaining compliance and enforcing standardization over your environment.

Working with State Manager is quite simple and straightforward. You start off by selecting a state document (JSON based) that specifies the settings you need to configure or maintain your EC2 instances. These documents come predefined and you can create customized versions of them. With the document created, you can then select the individual managed instances, which can be either EC2 instances or even on-premises virtual machines, as well as specify a schedule for when and how...