Why AWS OpsWorks

Suppose we want to change the properties file of 1000 servers running at a time. With the help of OpsWorks tools, we can do it seamlessly without long hours of laborious work. All we have to do is only once deploy the changes and it will replicate them across all the components. The AWS OpsWorks Stacks SDK is contained in the AWS SDKs, which can be executed by high-level languages like Java, JavaScript, NET, PHP, Python, or Ruby. The reason why we should choose OpsWorks is-

• Extremely Productive
• Highly powerful
• Easy to use and starts quickly
• Flexible
• Secure

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.