Steps to Configuring AWS OpsWorks
For those who do not have an AWS account, create one on the Amazon Web Services website where we will have all the resources available to configure the AWS OpsWorks. After creating an AWS account, we will go to AWS Management Console. This page:
Step 1: We search for OpsWorks from the search menu.
Step 3: Select OpsWorks from the list and the following screen will be displayed.
Step 4: Select “Add your first stack” under the Start fresh section. The following Add Stack screen will appear.
Step 5: We are going to go ahead and add a sample stack. So we select Sample Stack and below Create stack option is visible we select that option. The Operating system type is not important, we can use any of the operating systems. After selecting “Create stack”, these are the five processes that will happen to set up a sample stack as shown below. Select “Explore the sample stack” in the blue button.
Step 6: After selecting the “Explore the sample stack” button, the following screen will appear:
Step 7: Select “start the instance” as pointed out by the cursor in the image above. The Instances page appears where we find nodejs-server1 is being installed which is basically a server that is getting installed. It will take some time to finish this installation process so we will have to wait till then. Once the installation is finished, the Status will be shown to be online.
Step 8: Now that the server has been installed, we proceed further and select Deployments from the left-hand side column, and the following Deployments and Commands screen is displayed.
Step 9: We select the button “Deploy an App” in blue. The below section appears.
Step 10: We keep the App and Command as it is and select “Deploy”. After that, the application will be deployed to our instance.
Step 11: Now since we have deployed an application in our instance, we will see what actually has happened. We select instances from the left-hand side column and the below screen appears. From here, we choose the IP address below the “Public IP” column for the server.
Step 12: On clicking the IP address, the following screen is displayed. This indicates we have created our first app using an instance in AWS OpsWorks.
What is AWS OpsWorks?
Pre-requisites:AWS
First of all, we need to understand why we need AWS DevOps or why is it so useful. AWS is one of the best cloud service providers in the market and DevOps on the other hand is the ‘need of the hour’ implementation of the software development lifecycle. The following reasons make AWS DevOps a highly popular amalgamation.
AWS Instances: Instances provide various services like AWS EC2 and various container services which let us go ahead and spawn certain instances. These instances are nothing but our virtual machines on top of that, you can host different kinds of applications. We can put in different kinds of data so instances are a must and what these instances do is they readily scale up and scale down to your needs to something that is very suitable for a DevOps approach.
AWS Cloud Formation: Cloud Formation is something that we use to create templates and lets us create environments, which we can use to go ahead and host different kinds of applications.
AWS Code Pipeline: It lets us create a pipeline in which we can put our data. This data is built into applications it is tested several times. It is actually also committed to the repository that we wish to use. We can do it on Github we can use an in-house repository which is called AWS Code Commit.
AWS Cloudwatch: Cloudwatch is a monitoring service that lets us keep track of all the activities that are happening on the platform of AWS. So when we talk about DevOps, everything is taken care of with the help of AWS at least on the cloud platform terms if we are talking about it from that perspective.