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hands-on labDeploying a PHP Application Using AWS OpsWorks

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AWS OpsWorks Stacks can no longer be created and existing stacks will no longer be able to be used after May 26, 2024.

For more information please reference the following documentation:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/opsworks/latest/userguide/welcome_classic.html

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Lab steps

Logging In to the Amazon Web Services Console

Creating a Stack in AWS OpsWorks

Creating a Layer in AWS OpsWorks

Creating and Deploying an Application in AWS OpsWorks

Deleting a Stack in AWS OpsWorks

Lab rules apply

Lab description

AWS OpsWorks is a configuration management service that provides managed instances of Chef and Puppet to automate your application management operations.

The main building blocks of OpsWorks include:

stacks: Top-level building blocks. Used to model your applications with the help of layers.
layers: Separate levels of a stack to separate the concerns of your application. Layers can be categorized by responsibility such as web, application, and database layers
instances: EC2 instances that are associated with your stack layers to perform the necessary tasks at each level of your application
apps: Code that you want to be deployed and ran on your instances in a layer.

In this lab, you will utilize these building blocks to create and deploy a simple PHP application using AWS OpsWorks.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this lab you will be able to:

Create an AWS OpsWorks stack
Learn how to use AWS OpsWorks components
Deploy a PHP web application

Intended Audience

DevOps Engineers
Candidates for the AWS DevOps Professional Exam

Prerequisites

Familiarity with the following will be beneficial but is not required:

AWS OpsWorks

Updates

March 12th, 2023 - Resolved an issue that caused the lab to fail to set up on rare occasions

September 2nd, 2021 - Updated ec2 instance role name in the instructions

August 24th, 2021 - Recovered the ability to create stacks after AWS resolved the OpsWorks console validation issue

June 22th, 2021 - Incorporate updated lab format and revamp lab steps to match the current AWS console

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About the author

Ryan S. Brown

Senior DevOps

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Ryan and his faithful business partner Jade build tools for OpenStack and AWS to automate support of high-availability applications. Offline, he can be found buried in human factors books looking for ways to build more resilient systems.

Ryan loves working with large systems, the less predictable the better. Scaling, load balancing, and graceful failure handling are his favorite classes of problems.

His free time quickly fills with personal projects and self directed research on new tools or different areas of software development.

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