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Deploy, Manage, and Scale Your Apps

with OpsWorks and Elastic Beanstalk

Chris Barclay Evan Brown

Product Manager Community Manager

July 10, 2014

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

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)

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?

You need to

deliver resilient

applications with

less work

Source: http://xkcd.com/844/

Elastic Beanstalk OpsWorks CloudFormation

Application Container Application Automation Templated Provisioning

Jane Doe, Elastic Beanstalk developer

Jane Doe, Elastic Beanstalk developer

• Developer

• Builds web apps, APIs, and handles some

background processing workloads

• Needs some flexibility to customize her app

environments

• Wants simple API to monitor, view logs, scale,

and deploy her apps

The demonstration

• A PHP application that

stores text messages in

a database

• Uses Elastic Load

Balancing and Amazon

RDS

Load-based Auto scaling

PHP

App

Server

PHP

App

Server

PHP

App

Server

Demo time

• Checkout app from GitHub

• Integrate with the eb command line tool

• Deploy from the command line

• View the console

• Change, commit, and deploy

Elastic Beanstalk Supports…

Java PHP Python Ruby .NET Node.js

Deploy Your App for Test

Alert

Log

Mon

Ap

p

AZ

http://your-app.elasticbeanstalk.com

Deploy Your App for Scale

Alert

Log

Mon

Ap

p

AZ

EL

B

http://your-app.elasticbeanstalk.com

Deploy Your Background Processing App

Alert

Log

Mon

Ap

p

AZ

SQS QueueProducers

Deploy With Tools You Know

Deploy With Tools You Know

Deploy With Tools You Know

Alert

Log

Mon

Ap

p

AZ

EL

B

http://your-app.elasticbeanstalk.com

Customize Your Servers, Simply

Customize Your Servers, Simply

Store Sensitive Config, Safely

Alert

Log

Mon

Ap

p

AZ

EL

B

http://your-app.elasticbeanstalk.com

import os

some_var=os.environ.get(‘API_CREDS’)

String some_var = System.getProperty(‘API_CREDS’)

NameValueCollection appConfig = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings;

String param = appConfig[”API_CREDS"];

Python

Java

C#

Store Sensitive Config, Safely

Alert

Log

Mon

Ap

p

AZ

EL

B

http://your-app.elasticbeanstalk.com

import os

some_var=os.environ.get(‘API_CREDS’)

String some_var = System.getProperty(‘API_CREDS’)

NameValueCollection appConfig = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings;

string param = appConfig[”API_CREDS"];

Python

Java

C#

Store Sensitive Config, Safely

Alert

Log

Mon

Ap

p

AZ

EL

B

http://your-app.elasticbeanstalk.com

import os

some_var=os.environ.get(‘API_CREDS’)

String some_var = System.getProperty(‘API_CREDS’)

NameValueCollection appConfig = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings;

string param = appConfig[”API_CREDS"];

Python

Java

C#

John Doe, OpsWorks Developer

John Doe, 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

Benefits

• Any architecture

• Configuration as code

• Automation to run at scale

• Control any component

Dynamic Configuration

Dynamic Configuration

Dynamic Configuration

Dynamic Configuration

Dynamic Configuration

Dynamic Configuration

Dynamic Configuration

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 …

The demonstration

• The same application

demonstrated with

Elastic Beanstalk

• Also uses Ganglia for

application monitoring Load-based Auto scaling

PHP

App

Server

PHP

App

Server

PHP

App

Server

Ganglia

Server

Demo time

• Model application using layers and apps

• Customize configuration using recipes

• Deployment options

• Review logs

• Manage user permissions

AWS CloudFormation: Model Your App

• Document, version control, and share your

applications and infrastructure as a JSON

document

• Provision app and other AWS resources (VPC,

DynamoDB, etc) from a template

• Repeatable, reliable deployments for

test/dev/prod in any AWS Region

Elastic Beanstalk or OpsWorks Resource

Ap

pE

LB

AZ

your-app.elasticbeanstalk.com

Alert

Log

Mon

Database Resources

Users Table

(DynamoDB)

MySQL Primary

(RDS)

Ap

pE

LB

AZ

your-app.elasticbeanstalk.com

Alert

Log

Mon

Object Storage and Security Resources

Users Table

(DynamoDB)

MySQL Primary

(RDS)

App Storage

(S3)

IAM Instance Profile

Ap

pE

LB

AZ

your-app.elasticbeanstalk.com

Alert

Log

Mon

Deployed as a CloudFormation Stack

Users Table

(DynamoDB)

MySQL Primary

(RDS)

App Storage

(S3)

IAM Instance Profile

Ap

pE

LB

AZ

your-app.elasticbeanstalk.com

Alert

Log

Mon

Modeled in a Template File

Users Table

(DynamoDB)

MySQL Primary

(RDS)

App Storage

(S3)

IAM Instance Profile

Ap

pE

LB

AZ

your-app.elasticbeanstalk.com

Alert

Log

Mon

CloudFormation

Template

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 AWS

Elastic Beanstalk and AWS OpsWorks

• How to use AWS CloudFormation templates to

document, version control, and share your

application configuration

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Thank You!