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AWS Administration - The Definitive Guide - Second Edition

By : Yohan Wadia
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AWS Administration - The Definitive Guide - Second Edition

By: Yohan Wadia

Overview of this book

Many businesses are moving from traditional data centers to AWS because of its reliability, vast service offerings, lower costs, and high rate of innovation. AWS can be used to accomplish a variety of both simple and tedious tasks. Whether you are a seasoned system admin or a rookie, this book will help you to learn all the skills you need to work with the AWS cloud. This book guides you through some of the most popular AWS services, such as EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, EFS, CloudTrail, Redshift, EMR, Data Pipeline, and IoT using a simple, real-world, application-hosting example. This book will also enhance 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. Each chapter is designed to provide you with maximal information about each AWS service, coupled with easy to follow, hands-on steps, best practices, tips, and recommendations. By the end of the book, you will be able to create a highly secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable environment for your applications to run on.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Getting started with Elastic Beanstalk


In this section, we will be performing a deep dive into how to set up a fully-functional Dev and Prod environment for our simple WordPress application using Elastic Beanstalk. Before we get started, here is a list of some prerequisite items that you need to have in place before we can proceed:

  • A valid AWS account and user credentials with the required set of privileges to run the AWS CLI and the Elastic Beanstalk CLI.
  • A sandbox/Dev instance to download the WordPress installation and later use it to push the application code over to the respective Beanstalk environment. Note that you can also use other resources, such as a Git URL or an IDE, but for now we will be focusing on this approach.

Creating the Dev environment

Let's first start off by creating a simple and straightforward development environment for our WordPress site. To do so, execute the following steps:

  1. Sign in to the AWS Console and select the Elastic Beanstalk option from the Services filter...