Introduction To AWS OpsWorks

This blog post will talk about one of the most essential AWS configuration management services: AWS OpsWorks, which runs Puppet and Chef in managed environments.

Puppet and Chef are both platforms for automation. You can use code to set up your servers automatically with Puppet and Chef. OpsWorks lets you use Puppet and Chef to set up, deploy, and manage servers across your on-premises computing environments or Amazon S3 and EC2 instances in an automated way.

What Is AWS OpsWorks?

It is more than just an application container; it is also an application management service. With extra features like integration with configuration management software (Chef) and application lifecycle management, it adds even more levels of automation. You can use application lifecycle management to decide when resources are set up, configured, deployed, undeployed, or turned off.

Benefits of AWS OpsWorks

Customers have already been trying to ask for a long time for an Application Management solution that lets them handle the whole lifecycle of an application. There are some distinct advantages in OpsWorks that help customers do this:

• Support and model any application

On Amazon Linux and Ubuntu, you can set up your application in any way you want. With OpsWorks, you can use layers to make a model of your application, and layers tell how a group of managed resources should be set up.

• Automate tasks

OpsWorks lets you automate management tasks to happen reliably and on their own. You can get the most out of automatic failover, package management, setting up EBS volume RAID, and auto-scaling based on rules or time. Regular tasks are taken care of for you automatically, and you can also add to and change this automation.

• Control access

With OpsWorks, you can decide who can use your application. You decide which IAM users can use the application's resources and what they can do by giving them permissions. With these controls, users can't change production resources by accident. An event view shows the history of changes, making it easier to find the root cause.

AWS OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise

AWS OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise is a wholly managed software configuration service that includes Puppet Enterprise, a set of automation tools from Puppet for managing infrastructure and application services.

Chef Automate works with AWS Opsworks.

AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate gives you a fully managed Chef Automate server and a set of automation tools. These tools include workflow automation for continuous deployment, automated testing for compliance and security, and a user interface that lets you see your nodes and their status. The Chef Automate platform gives you full stack automation by taking care of operational tasks like software and operating system configurations, continuous compliance, package installations, database setups, etc.

The AWS OpsWorks Stacks

With AWS OpsWorks Stacks, you can manage applications and servers on AWS courses and your network. With OpsWorks Stacks, you can build your application as a stack with different layers, like a load balancer, application server, and database. You can set up and use Amazon S3 and EC2 instances or connect other resources like Amazon RDS databases in each layer.

Application stacks are broken up into architectural layers to manage each pile separately. A web tier, a database tier, and an application tier are all examples of layers. Auto Scaling groups and Elastic Load Balancing load balancers are easier to set up with AWS OpsWorks out of the box, another example of the DevOps principle of automation. Like AWS courses, Elastic Beanstalk, AWS OpsWorks lets you manage the configuration of your infrastructure and different versions of your applications.