AWS OpsWorks lets you model and visualize your application with layers that define how to configure a set of resources that are managed together. Did you also know that you have two ways to customize your instances? In this session we show you how use custom AMIs as the foundation for your instances to improve boot speeds and Chef recipes to dynamically install, configure, and update software

1. AWS OpsWorks
Chris Barclay
Product Manager

2. Application Management Challenges
• Your app’s reliability and scalability are really important.
• The operational tasks needed to keep it running
smoothly take time…
• As your app grows, routine operational tasks can
become even more time-consuming and error-prone.
• Don’t want to tradeoff control or flexibility for ease of use.
• Provision
• Deploy
• Configure
• Monitor
• Scale
• Secure

3. Once upon a time…
Source: http://www.mixph.com/2008/10/how-to-make-donuts-food-business.html

4. This is what we want…
Source http://thethriftythings.com/2013/01/doughnut-heaven-with-krispy-kreme-2013-bloggers-summit.html

5. Recipes + Automation
Source www.ericjoyner.com

6. In today’s infrastructure, everything is code…
from the applications developers are writing, to
your configuration management tools, to
provisioning resources with CloudFormation
templates.

7. AWS OpsWorks
• Integrated application management solution for
ops-minded developers and IT admins
• Model, control and automate applications of
nearly any scale and complexity
• Management Console, SDKs, or CLI
• No additional cost

8. Why AWS OpsWorks?
SIMPLE
Easy to use,
quickly get
started and
productive
PRODUCTIVE
Reduces
errors with
conventions
and scripted
configuration
FLEXIBLE
Simplifies
deployments
of any
scale and
complexity
POWERFUL
Reduce cost
and time with
automation
SECURE
Enables
control with
fine grained
permissions

9. Example Customers
AWS OpsWorks gives us the tools we need
to automate operations.
We can scale Monster World, one of the
largest Facebook games, to millions of users
without ever needing more than two
backend developers.
Jesper Richter-Reichhelm
head of engineering, Wooga
Crashlytics uses AWS OpsWorks to support
the rapid growth of our mobile crash
reporting solution. With OpsWorks, we can
focus on the development and growth of
our service and not spend developer cycles
on infrastructure and operational tasks.
Jeff Seibert
CEO of Crashlytics

10. Software Deployment Options
Linux
JEE
Hibernate
Your Code
Struts
Apache
Tomcat
Linux
JEE
Hibernate
Your Code
Struts
Apache
Tomcat
Linux
JEE
Hibernate
Your Code
Struts
Apache
Tomcat
Image Container Layers OpsWorks
Chef +
custom AMIs

11. AWS Application Management Services
Elastic Beanstalk OpsWorks CloudFormation EC2
Convenience Control
Higher-level Services Do it yourself

12. What we’re going to show in the demo…
A stack represents
the cloud
infrastructure and
applications that you
want to manage
together.
A layer defines how
to setup and
configure a set of
instances and related
resources.
Then deploy your
app to specific
instances and
customize the
deployment with
Chef recipes.
Decide how to scale:
manually, with 24/7
instances, or
automatically, with
load-based or time-
based instances.

13. What is Chef and how does OpsWorks use it
• Chef is an open-source
framework that
automates software
deployment and
configuration.
• Whenever a change
happens on your stack,
or upon request, all
instances are notified
and recipes are run.
RecipesLifecycle Events
Metadata

14. Chef recipes in action
Recipe
+
Metadata
=
Command
execute “mysql-connect” do
command “/usr/bin/mysql
-u#{node[:deploy][:myphpapp][:database][:username]}
-p#{node[:deploy][:myphpapp][:database][:password]}
#{node[:deploy][:myphpapp][:database][:database]}
…
“deploy”: {
“myphpapp”: {
“database”: {
“username”: “root”,
“password”: “abcxyz”,
…
“/usr/bin/mysql -uroot –pabcxyz myphpapp …

15. OpsWorks and Chef
• OpsWorks uses Chef Solo to configure the software
on the instance
• OpsWorks provides many Chef Server functions to
users.
– Associate cookbooks with instances
– Dynamic metadata that describes each registered node in the
infrastructure
• Supports "Push" Command and Control Client Runs
• With Chef 11, broader support for community
cookbooks

16. Recent OpsWorks Launches
 ELB support
 CloudWatch metrics view
 Chef 11 and Custom AMIs

17. Demo

18. Questions?

19. Thank you!
For more information, see us at https://aws.amazon.com/opsworks/