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Learning AWS OpsWorks

By : Todd Rosner
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Learning AWS OpsWorks

By: Todd Rosner

Overview of this book

<p>AWS OpsWorks is a DevOps cloud management solution from Amazon Web Services. The OpsWorks web service works in concert with AWS resources and provides a template-driven approach to automated scaling. Learning AWS OpsWorks is a practical guide that includes details and instructions for scaling multistage environments and deploying applications using AWS OpsWorks.</p> <p>Learning AWS OpsWorks will get you involved in a DevOps role, where you will learn key concepts and information about building scalable infrastructures to support high traffic applications. You will also learn about other important facets such as security, monitoring, and command-line reporting.</p> <p>This book is a guide to Amazon’s DevOps cloud management service and will provide you with the foundation of knowledge and the skills required for building and scaling multistage environments and applications in the AWS cloud. You will become acquainted with the DevOps role and how it relates to OpsWorks. Technologies such as EC2, ELB, EBS, CloudWatch, IAM, Route 53, Git, and GitHub will be discussed in relation to the core concepts of OpsWorks, which include stack and layer development, instances, apps, monitoring, and access control. This book is full of step-by-step instructions and illustrations which are designed to help you scale your applications for the Web.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Summary


In this chapter, we introduced AWS IAM to you, and we also demonstrated how IAM integrates with OpsWorks. From here, you should continue to explore IAM and how it all relates to OpsWorks.

In the next chapter, we will take a look at the Instance Agent CLI to show you how OpsWorks enables a DevOps role to use the CLI for running commands, viewing logs, and accessing agent reports.