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AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional Certification and Beyond

By : Adam Book
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AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional Certification and Beyond

By: Adam Book

Overview of this book

The AWS Certified DevOps Engineer certification is one of the highest AWS credentials, vastly recognized in cloud computing or software development industries. This book is an extensive guide to helping you strengthen your DevOps skills as you work with your AWS workloads on a day-to-day basis. You'll begin by learning how to create and deploy a workload using the AWS code suite of tools, and then move on to adding monitoring and fault tolerance to your workload. You'll explore enterprise scenarios that'll help you to understand various AWS tools and services. This book is packed with detailed explanations of essential concepts to help you get to grips with the domains needed to pass the DevOps professional exam. As you advance, you'll delve into AWS with the help of hands-on examples and practice questions to gain a holistic understanding of the services covered in the AWS DevOps professional exam. Throughout the book, you'll find real-world scenarios that you can easily incorporate in your daily activities when working with AWS, making you a valuable asset for any organization. By the end of this AWS certification book, you'll have gained the knowledge needed to pass the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer exam, and be able to implement different techniques for delivering each service in real-world scenarios.
Table of Contents (31 chapters)
1
Section 1: Establishing the Fundamentals
7
Section 2: Developing, Deploying, and Using Infrastructure as Code
16
Section 3: Monitoring and Logging Your Environment and Workloads
21
Section 4: Enabling Highly Available Workloads, Fault Tolerance, and Implementing Standards and Policies
27
Section 5: Exam Tips and Tricks

Monitoring OpsWorks

You can monitor your AWS OpsWorks stacks in a number of ways:

  • Using Amazon CloudWatch
  • Using Amazon CloudWatch Logs
  • Using Amazon CloudWatch Events
  • Using Amazon CloudTrail

With Amazon CloudWatch, there are 13 custom metrics provided for detailed monitoring of each of the instances in the stack. There is also a custom monitoring page created in OpsWorks that summarizes the data and makes it easy to understand these metrics. If you are running Windows instances, the monitoring page will not display the metrics for those Windows instances. The metrics are displayed for the entire stack, but you can also concentrate on a particular layer or a particular instance.

If you still have the deployment running from the previous exercise, you can click the Monitoring menu icon to be taken to the dashboard. This can give you quick insights into the state of your application:

Figure 10.17 – Monitoring dashboard in...