Deployments & Managing Infrastructure at scale

Lets learn about the used materials to deploy and manage infrastructu

CloudFormation :

• Provisioning of AWS resources with infrastructure as code.

• Works with almost all AWS services.

• No additional charge - you pay only for the AWS resources

• Template - A text file containing a model of your whole infrastructure in JSON or YAML

• For a better explanation : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omppm_YUG2g.

Elastic Beanstalk :

• Platform as a Service ( PaaS ) - Provides a platform for developers to deploy and scale applications on the cloud, so you don't have to worry about system administration tasks.

• No additional charge - you pay only for the AWS resources needed to store and run your application.

• Deploy with a known architecture.

CodeDeploy :

• Hybrid service to automate software deployments/updates to on-premises and AWS, e.g. EC2 instances.

• For a better explanation : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx-ain8UryM

System Manager - SSM :

• Hybrid service for patching and running commands to a lot of EC2 instances and/or on-premises servers.

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AWS OpsWorks :

• Configuration management hybrid service that provides managed instances of chef and puppet.

• Chef and Puppet are automation platforms that allow you to use code to automate the configurations of your servers.

QuickStart :

• Deploy pre-made packages for different workloads and tasks

Marketplace :

Find, test and buy and deploy software taht runs on AWS.

Summary

Deployment :

• CloudFormation - ( AWS only) : -> Infrastructure as Code, works with almost all AWS resources -> Repeat across Regions & Accounts.

• Beanstalk - (AWS only) : -> Platform as a Service (PaaS), limited to certain programming languages or Docker. ->Deploy code consistently with a known architecture : ex, ALB + EC2 +RDS

• CodeDeploy - (Hybrid) : -> Deploy & upgrade any application onto servers.

• Systems Manager - (Hybrid) : -> Patch, configure and run commands at scale.

• OpsWorks - (Hybrid) : Managed chef and Puppet in AWS.

Developer Services :

• CodeCommit : Store code in private git repository (version controlled).

• CodeBuild : Build & test code in AWS.

• CodeDeploy : Deploy code onto servers.

• CodePipeline : Orchestration of pipeline (From code to build to deploy).

• CodeArtifact : Store software packages / Dependencies on AWS.

• CodeStar : Unified view for allowing developers to do CICD and code.

• Cloud9 : Cloud IDE (Integrated Development Environment) with Collab.

• AWS CDK : Define your cloud infrastructure using a programming language