Thomas Metschke

Introducing AWS OpsWorks

Technical Program Manager

Once upon a time…

Making Donuts

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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Source: http://www.mixph.com/2008/10/how-to-make-donuts-food-business.html

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Recipes + Automation

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Introducing AWS OpsWorks

• Integrated application management solution for ops-

minded developers and IT admins

• Model, control and automate applications of nearly any

scale and complexity

• AWS Management Console, SDKs, or CLI

• No additional cost

AWS Application Management Services

Elastic Beanstalk OpsWorks CloudFormation EC2

Convenience Control

Higher-level Services Do it yourself

The heart of AWS OpsWorks

7

Agent on eachEC2 instance

OpsWorkstalks with

The heart of AWS OpsWorks

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understands a set of commands that aretriggered by OpsWorks.The agent then runs a Chef solo run.

Agent on eachEC2 instance

Instance lifecycle commands

Enough talking

DEMO TIME

Improve reliability

Git

Code

Jenkins

Build Test

OpsWorks

Provision Deploy Monitor

What’s next for AWS OpsWorks?

• Deeper integration with AWS resources (e.g., ELB)• More built-in layers• Advanced VPC integration (beyond today’s support for the

default VPC)• And more!

• Please give us your feedback in the OpsWorks forums.

Thank You!

For more information, please visit us at

https://aws.amazon.com/opsworks

Thomas Metschke

@tmetschke