This technical session focuses on a customer use case and how using the AWS Cloud together with automation has enabled them to standardise and automate their systems. This talk will describe how this is achieved with two tools, Cloud formation and Puppet. Cloud formation is a declarative templating language that enables the deployment of environments in a standardised way. Combined with a configuration management tool like Puppet allows for the automation of ongoing software deployments and maintenance in a low overhead manner. Puppet is a Configuration Management tool that installs and configures software on instances. Taken together a complete system can be built from the ground up. Live demonstrations will showcase these concepts. Speaker: Sebastian Krueger, Director of Cloud Engineering, API Talent.

1. Infrastructure Automation on AWS
Sebastian
Krueger
–
Director
of
Cloud
Engineering
Lindsay
Parker
–
Cloud
Architect
Using a Real-­‐World Customer Example

2. Agenda
• Case
Study
Overview
• Automation
Introduction
• Cloudformation
• Puppet
• Demo

4. Case Study Overview

5. Case Study Overview
• The
challenge
• New
deployment
of
‘big’
Oracle
Enterprise
Application
and
associated
applications
• Tight
delivery
deadlines
• Only
2.5
technical
FTEs
• Greenfields,
i.e.
no
existing
H/W,
new
install
• Multiple
environments
required
–
dev,
sit,
ual,
qual,
etc
Start
with
an
empty
AWS
account.

6. Technologies Landscape
• Oracle
Enterprise
Application
Stack
• Oracle
Service
Bus
/
SOA
Suite
• Mulesoft
ESB
for
System
Integration

7. High Level Architecture

8. Automation Introduction
• Reproducible
• Consistent
across
environments
• Build
one,
run
many
times
• Template
install
• High
skilled
build,
low
skilled
run
• Automatic
resilience
and
recovery
• Reduce
developer
turnaround
time

9. Cloudformation
• Infrastructure
automation
and
deployment
• Simple
to
create,
update,
and
delete
stacks
of
infrastructure
• Free!
Pay
only
for
the
AWS
resources
created
in
the
stack
• Available
in
all
regions
• Deploy
almost
all
AWS
services
• Uses
a
JSON
format

11. Configuration Management Tools
• Configuration
Management
Tool
• Install
packages,
template
files,
and
control
services
on
servers
• Tools
• Facter
–
server
information
• Hiera
–
configuration
store
• Share
code
in
modules.
Public
on
Forge,
Github.
• Lots
of
alternatives

13. Demo Time
• Oracle
Meter
Data
Management
on
AWS
• Based
on
Oracle
WebLgoic
and
Oracle
Application
Framework
used
in
various
other
Oracle
Enterprise
Applications