Based on your specific needs and the nature of your application, AWS offers a variety of services for getting your application up and running. You may want to launch and scale a web application or you may want to host a microservices application using Docker containers. How do you decide which service to use and when? In this webinar, we will provide an overview of the AWS services that help simplify launching and running your application in the cloud. We will discuss the strengths of each service and provide a framework for understanding when to use them. Learning Objectives: Understand the primary services for deploying your application on AWS Learn the basics of AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS CodeDeploy, and Amazon EC2 Container Service Gain an understanding of the strengths of each service and when to use them Who Should Attend: Developers, DevOps Engineers, IT Professionals

1. © 2015, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Warren Santner, Solutions Architect
January 26, 2016
Essentials
Introduction to Deploying Applications on AWS

2. Learning Objectives
• Understand the primary services for deploying your
application on AWS
• Learn the basics of AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS
CodeDeploy, and Amazon EC2 Container Service
• Gain an understanding of the strengths of each service
and when to use them

3. Deployments are Not Easy
• Traditional environments
favor in-place upgrades
• Resource constraints
• Downtime
• Dependencies
• Fragile, High-Touch
Processes
• Difficult rollback

4. Common Deployment Risks
Challenges
Application failure
Infrastructure failure
Capacity issues
Scaling issues
People failure
Process failure
Rollback issues
Business Impacts
Downtime
Data loss
Bad customer experience
Lost revenue
Grumpy managers
Burned out staff
Wasted time/resources

5. Benefits of Deploying with AWS Services
AWS:
• Agile deployments
• Flexible options
• Scalable capacity
• Automation capabilities

6. Elastic Beanstalk CodeDeploy EC2 Container
Service (ECS)
Deploy Web
Applications without
Managing Infrastructure
Automate Code
Deployments to EC2
and On-Premises
Easily Deploy on
Managed Docker
Clusters
Three Choices for Deployment

7. Common Patterns
You want to simply
deploy your web
application (code or
container) without
managing the
infrastructure.
You need a scalable
cluster to run simple
and complex
container
deployments.
You require a flexible
tool to deploy and
update software on
the instances you
manage both on-
premises and in the
cloud.
Elastic Beanstalk CodeDeploy EC2 Container
Service (ECS)

8. “I’ve been developing a Django application on my
laptop and am ready to go into production.”
“We need a way to deploy and scale
microservices across a cluster of instances.”
“We outsourced the development of a new
web application that our contractor delivered
as a WAR that we need to run and scale in
production.”
“Our operations team manages a fleet of
application servers, but we need more flexibility
to do rolling updates.”
“We have a deployment that requires executing
custom tasks before and after the installation
while orchestrating the deployment without
downtime.”
“Our dev teams are moving to Docker
containers and we need to build a platform to
support running them at scale in production.”
Use Cases
Elastic Beanstalk
CodeDeploy
EC2 Container Service

9. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
deploy and scale web applications and services developed with
Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, and Docker

10. Benefits
Fast & simple
to begin
Developer
productivity
Impossible
to outgrow
Complete
resource control

11. AWS Elastic Beanstalk Overview
Your code
HTTP server
Application server
Language interpreter
Operating system
Instance
Elastic Beanstalk configures
each EC2 instance in your
environment with the
components necessary to run
applications for the selected
platform. No more worrying
about logging into instances to
install and configure your
application stack.
Focus on building your
application
Provided by you
Provided and managed by Elastic Beanstalk
On-instance configuration

12. Platform Support
PHP
Python
Java
Ruby
Node.js
.NET
Go
Docker

13. Environments Configurations
Save these for easy duplication for
A/B testing or non-disruptive
deployments
Application Versions
All versions stored durably in
Amazon S3. Application can
also be pushed from a Git
repository!
App Versions & Environments

14. Deploy Your App for Test and Production
App
AZ
http://your-dev-app.elasticbeanstalk.com
App
AZ
ELB
http://your-prod-app.elasticbeanstalk.com

15. AWS CodeDeploy
automate code deployments to any instance, including Amazon
EC2 instances and instances running on-premises

16. Benefits
Automates
Deployments
Minimize Downtime Centralized Control East to Adopt

17. Scale from one instance to thousands
Deploy to any server: AWS or on-premises
Centrally control and monitor
Test
CodeDeployv1, v2, v3
Production
Dev
application
revisions
deployment groups
Agent
Agent Agent
Agent
Agent
Agent
Agent
Coordinate Automated Deployments

18. How It Works: Package App
version: 0.0
os: linux
files:
- source: chef/
destination: /etc/chef/codedeploy
- source: target/hello.war
destination: /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps
hooks:
ApplicationStop:
- location: deploy_hooks/stop-tomcat.sh
BeforeInstall:
- location: deploy_hooks/install-chef.sh
- location: deploy_hooks/chef-solo.sh
ApplicationStart:
- location: deploy_hooks/start-tomcat.sh
ValidateService:
- location: deploy_hooks/verify_service.sh

19. Agent Agent Agent
Test
Agent Agent
Agent Agent
Agent
Agent
Production
Deployment groupDeployment group
Group instances by:
• Auto Scaling Group
• Amazon EC2 Tag
• On-Premises Tag
How It Works: Specify Targets

20. aws deploy create-deployment
--application-name MyApp
--deployment-group-name TargetGroup
--s3-location bucket=MyBucket,key=MyApp.zip
• AWS CLI & SDKs
• AWS Console
• AWS CodePipeline & CI/CD Partners
• S3, GitHub & BitBucket
How It Works: Deploy

21. v2 v1 v1 v1 v1 v1 v1 v1
v2 v2 v1 v1 v1 v1 v1 v1
v2 v2 v2 v2 v1 v1 v1 v1
v2 v2 v2 v2 v2 v2 v2 v2
One-at-a-time
Min. healthy hosts = 99%
[Custom]
Min. healthy hosts = 75%
Half-at-a-time
Min. healthy hosts = 50%
All-at-once
Min. healthy hosts = 0
Deployment Configurations

22. Amazon EC2 Container Service
highly scalable, high performance container management
service that supports Docker containers and allows you to
easily run applications on a managed cluster of Amazon EC2
instances

23. Amazon EC2 Container Service
• Highly scalable, high performance container
management service that supports Docker.
• Takes care of reliable state management and flexible
scheduling for you.
Application fidelity from the developer desk to production.
Package your application and dependencies
into a Docker container.

24. EC2 Container Service Benefits
Cluster Management
Made Easy
Performance at
Scale
Integrated

25. ECS Components
Task Definition
ECS Cluster
Container Instance

26. ECS Service Scheduler – Updating Your App
Deployment process:
• Start with blue task definition
referenced by an ECS service
• Create a green revision of the
existing task definition
• Update existing ECS service to use
the updated task definition
• ECS will deploy the new task
definition to container instances in
a rolling fashion

27. Pattern: ECS service update
Deployment process:
• Start with blue task definition
referenced by an ECS service
• Create a green revision of the
existing task definition
• Update existing ECS service to use
the updated task definition
• ECS will deploy the new task
definition to container instances in
a rolling fashion

28. Pattern: ECS service update
Deployment process:
• Start with blue task definition
referenced by an ECS service
• Create a green revision of the
existing task definition
• Update existing ECS service to use
the updated task definition
• ECS will deploy the new task
definition to container instances in
a rolling fashion

29. Pattern: ECS service update
Deployment process:
• Start with blue task definition
referenced by an ECS service
• Create a green revision of the
existing task definition
• Update existing ECS service to use
the updated task definition
• ECS will deploy the new task
definition to container instances in
a rolling fashion

30. Service Comparison

31. Decision Tree
Are you using Docker or VMs?
Docker VMs
Do you have a
3-Tier web app
or website?
NoYes
Use
CodeDeploy
Use ECSUse Elastic
Beanstalk
Use Elastic
Beanstalk
Do you have a
3-Tier web app
or website?
Yes No

32. Elastic Beanstalk CodeDeploy
EC2 Container
Service
Overview
Simply deploy your application
on a set number of platforms
Deploy any application on
your infrastructure and
integrate with existing CI/CD
processes
Use a managed cluster and
focus on development and
deployment of Linux Docker
Containers
Deployment
Targets
Tomcat, PHP, Python, Node.js,
Ruby, .NET, Java SE, Docker,
Go
Generic – Windows and Linux Linux Docker Containers
3rd Party
Integrations
(as of
01/2016)
Integrate with your CI/CD
workflow with open APIs
and/or the AWS CLI
Bitbucket & GitHub
Bamboo, CircleCI,
CloudBees/Jenkins, Codeship,
Solano Labs, Travis CI
Ansible, Chef, Puppet,
SaltStack
Any third party or accessible
private Docker registry, or
Docker Hub
Pricing
No additional charge. Pay for
the resources you create to
store and run your application.
No additional charge for
deployments to EC2
instances. Customers pay
$0.02 per on-premises
instance update.
No additional charge. Pay for
the resources you create to
store and run your application.

33. Learn More
AWS re:Invent 2015
(DVO306) AWS CodeDeploy: Automating Your Software Deployments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4NSyUbAEkw
AWS re:Invent 2015
(DVO201) Scaling Your Web Applications with AWS Elastic Beanstalk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkj0GXgaRv8
AWS re:Invent 2015
(CMP302) Amazon ECS: Distributed Applications at Scale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eun8CqGqdk8

34. Thank you!