AWS offers a number of services that help you easily deploy and run applications in the cloud. Come to this session to learn how to choose among these options. Through interactive demonstrations, this session will show you how to get an application running using AWS OpsWorks and AWS Elastic Beanstalk application management services. You will also learn how to use AWS CloudFormation templates to document, version control, and share your application configuration. This session will cover topics like application updates, customization and working with resources such as load balancers and databases. This session is recommended for people who understand AWS and want to know more about deployment options for their applications.

1. AWS Summit 2014
Deploy, Manage, and Scale Your
Apps with OpsWorks and Elastic
Beanstalk
Guy Ernest
Solutions Architect
@guyernest

2. What you will learn in this session
• How to choose among the AWS services that
can help you run applications more easily
• How to get an application running using AWS
Elastic Beanstalk and AWS OpsWorks
• How to use AWS CloudFormation templates to
document, version control, and share your
application configuration

3. 1. Make dough
2. Roll and cut the dough
3. Separate donuts from holes
4. Let the dough rise
5. Prepare the glaze
6. Frying time!
7. Let them dry
8. Apply glaze
9. Add sprinkles (optional)
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4. It’s not just deployments…
• How do I scale my environment?
• What is i-dc4297f2 used for?
• How do I know when my application is
unhealthy?
• Where do I get logs?
• Who has SSH access?

5. You need to
deliver resilient
applications with
less work
Source: http://xkcd.com/844/

6. AWS
Elastic Beanstalk
AWS
OpsWorks
AWS
CloudFormation
Application Container Application Automation Templated Provisioning

7. Jane Doe, Elastic Beanstalk developer

8. Jane Doe, Elastic Beanstalk developer
• Developer
• Builds web apps, APIs, and handles some
background processing workloads
• Needs some flexibility to customize her app
environments and get it fast to testing
• Wants simple API to monitor, view logs, scale,
and deploy her apps

9. The demonstration
• A Massive Voting App
using HTML, Java and
Node.js
• Uses Elastic Load
Balancing and Amazon
DynamoDB

28. Elastic Beanstalk Supports…
Java PHP Python Ruby .NET Node.js

29. Deploy Your App for Test
Alert
Log
Mon
App
AZ
http://your-app.elasticbeanstalk.com

30. Deploy Your App for Scale
Alert
Log
Mon
App
AZ
ELB
http://your-app.elasticbeanstalk.com

31. Deploy Your Background Processing
App
Alert
Log
Mon
App
AZ
Amazon SQS queueProducers

32. Deploy With Tools You Know
Alert
Log
Mon
App
AZ
ELB
http://your-app.elasticbeanstalk.com
v1.1 V1.2bV1.0

33. John Doe, AWS OpsWorks Developer

34. John Doe, AWS OpsWorks Developer
• Developer
• Builds apps with broad architectural patterns
and software; e.g., MongoDB and Solr
• Needs a high degree of flexibility to customize
app environments
• Wants APIs to control all aspects of application
operations including deployments and scaling

35. Benefits
• Any architecture
• Configuration as code
• Automation to run at scale
• Control any component

36. Deployments
• Application deployment from your favorite
repositories
• Supports patterns such as 1-box deployments
• Run scripts on-demand for runbook automation
• Restrict deployment and ssh access to specific
users

37. Dynamic Configuration

38. Dynamic Configuration

39. Dynamic Configuration

40. Dynamic Configuration

41. Dynamic Configuration

42. Dynamic Configuration

43. Dynamic Configuration

44. 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 …

45. “White board you environment”

47. Model your application

48. Manage Your Instances

52. Deploy your Apps

54. Protect your environment

56. AWS CloudFormation: Model Your App
• Document, version control, and share your
applications and infrastructure as a JSON
document
• Provision app and other AWS resources
(Amazon VPC, DynamoDB, etc.) from a
template
• Repeatable, reliable deployments for test/dev/
prod in any AWS region

57. Elastic Beanstalk or AWS OpsWorks
Resource
AppELB
AZ
your-app.elasticbeanstalk.com
Alert
Log
Mon

58. Database Resources
Users Table
(DynamoDB)
MySQL Primary
(RDS)
AppELB
AZ
your-app.elasticbeanstalk.com
Alert
Log
Mon

59. Object Storage and Security Resources
Users Table
(DynamoDB)
MySQL Primary
(RDS)
App Storage
(S3)
IAM Instance Profile
AppELB
AZ
your-app.elasticbeanstalk.com
Alert
Log
Mon

60. Deployed as an AWS CloudFormation
Stack
Users Table
(Amazon
DynamoDB)
MySQL Primary
(Amazon RDS)
App Storage
(Amazon S3)
IAM Instance Profile
AppELB
AZ
your-app.elasticbeanstalk.com
Alert
Log
Mon

61. Modeled in a Template File
Users Table
(Amazon
DynamoDB)
MySQL Primary
(Amazon RDS)
App Storage
(Amazon S3)
IAM Instance Profile
AppELB
AZ
your-app.elasticbeanstalk.com
Alert
Log
Mon
AWS
CloudFormation
Template

62. ?$$0 + $0 + $0 = $0

63. What we discussed
• How to choose among the AWS services that
can help you run applications more easily
• How to get an application running using Elastic
Beanstalk and AWS OpsWorks
• How to use AWS CloudFormation templates to
document, version control, and share your
application configuration

64. Learn More
Get started with Elastic Beanstalk
http://amzn.to/1dh8QkU
Follow us @aws_eb
Get started with AWS OpsWorks
http://amzn.to/1bSHOPN
Follow us @AWSOpsWorks
Get started with AWS CloudFormation
http://amzn.to/1m11Z3K
Follow us at @AWSCloudFormer

65. Thank You!
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Guy Ernest
Solutions Architect
@guyernest