Learning AWS OpsWorks : learn how to exploit advanced technologies to deploy and auto-scale web stacks /: learn how to exploit advanced technologies to deploy and auto-scale web stacks. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Todd Rosner.
• Other Names: Rosner, Todd
• Contents: Table of Contents; Learning AWS OpsWorks; Learning AWS OpsWorks; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more; Why Subscribe?; Free Access for Packt account holders; Instant Updates on New Packt Books; Preface; What this book covers; What you need for this book; Who this book is for; Conventions; Reader feedback; Customer support; Errata; Piracy; Questions; 1. A New Way to Scale; High-level OpsWorks; Stacks; Layers; Instances; Apps; The origin of OpsWorks; The importance of OpsWorks; The role of DevOps. OpsWorks for the startupSummary; 2. Welcome to AWS OpsWorks; Creating an AWS account; The dashboard; Summary; 3. Stack it Up!; Multistage environments; Development environment; Staging environment; Production environment; Automated build environment; Adding a stack; Regions; Availability zones; IAM roles; Default SSH key; Hostname theme; Stack color; Advanced; Inside the stack; Layer types; Elastic Load Balancer; Algorithms; Protocols; Traffic spikes; Timeouts; HAProxy; ELB creation; Summary; 4. Layers -- the Blueprint for Success; Configuring layers; Built-in Chef recipes; Custom Chef recipes. Elastic Load BalancerEBS volumes; Elastic IPs; OS Packages; Security groups; IAM instance profile; Auto healing; MySQL layer; Summary; 5. In an Instance; Instance types; Instance scaling types; 24/7 instances; Time-based instances; Load-based instances; Adding instances; Adding 24/7 instances; Adding load-based instances; Start/stop servers in batches of; If thresholds are exceeded/undershot for; After scaling up/down, ignore metrics for; Average CPU, memory, and load; MySQL instance; Summary; 6. Bring the Apps!; Continuous integration; Distributed is the new centralized; GitHub. Local IDE (Integrated Development Environment)Adding an app; Settings; Application source; Add domains; SSL settings; Deploy, edit, and delete; Deploy; Edit; Delete; Capistrano; Summary; 7. Big Brother; Amazon CloudWatch; OpsWorks monitoring; Stack metrics; Layer metrics; Instance metrics; Summary; 8. Access Control; Identity and Access Management; Secure by default; Integration; JSON and IAM policies; IAM users and groups; OpsWorks and IAM; OpsWorks as an IAM user; Signing in; Enabling SSH access via MindTerm; Summary; 9. Instance Agent Command Line Interface; Connecting via SSH. Java SSH client connectionsConnect directly; Connect with a standalone SSH client; Instance Agent CLI; Reporting agent; Getting JSON; Instance reporting; Listing commands; Lifecycle commands; Show agent logging; State of the stack; Summary; 10. Multi-region Architecture; Production stack; Multi-region; Amazon Route 53; OpsWorks and Route 53; Simple routing policy; Weighted routing policy; Latency routing policy; Failover routing policy; Summary; Index.
• Publisher Details: Birmingham : Packt Publishing
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (126 pages), illustrations (chiefly color)
• Subjects: 006.76; COMPUTERS -- Desktop Applications -- Project Management Software; Internet programming; Cloud computing; Internet programming; Cloud computing; Web services; Cloud computing; Internet programming; Internet programming; Cloud computing; Web services; COMPUTERS -- Client-Server Computing; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782171119; 1782171118; 9781782171102
• Related ISBNs: 178217110X; 9781782171102
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 8, 2013).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.