AWS: FAQs, routing rules, EC2 instances, and EIPs
AWS is used heavily in this book, but it is such a vast ecosystem that we can't sufficiently discuss all the details without taking the focus away from Jenkins. Rather than trying to guess what level of detail we should provide, instead we have dedicated a separate chapter to discussing AWS in depth. Chapter 5, Headfirst AWS for Jenkins, features step-by-step instructions with plenty of screenshots, best practices you should follow, and more. The rest of this book will still cover the AWS topics at a high level, and you can turn to Chapter 5, Headfirst AWS for Jenkins, for a deeper dive.
Now, let's cover some common pitfalls that everyone should watch out for.
EC2 instance types and sizes
You can start with an EC2 instance as small as t2.micro
– I used t2.micro
for the AWS Jenkins build for this book and it worked just fine. For a production controller, you can start with a larger end of the T2
type...