What is AWS OpsWorks

OpsWorks: AWS OpsWorks is a configuration management service that provides managed instances of Chef and Puppet. Chef and Puppet are automation platforms that allow you to use code to automate the configurations of your servers. OpsWorks lets you use Chef and Puppet to automate how servers are configured, deployed and managed across your Amazon EC2 instances or on-premises compute environments

• Deploy App, Fast and reliable
• Easy to start with pre-build configuration.
• No additional cost.
• It is IAC (Infrastructure as Code).- Re-usable, Documented, Versioned, Tested.

OpsWorks has three offerings :

• AWS OpsWorks Stacks.
• AWS OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise
• AWS Opsworks for Chef Automate

    1.AWS OpsWorks Stacks: AWS OpsWorks stack is an application and server management service. OpsWorks Stack contains different layers. and each layer contains other resources such as -RDS. 

• Layers: That contains- ELB, EC2, RDS
• Apps: Your app configuration- included Source code repository information.
• Deployment: Steps to deploy an app
• Resources: EIP, Volumes and RDS information. 

    2. AWS OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise: AWS OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise is a fully-managed configuration management service that hosts Puppet Enterprise, a set of automation tools from Puppet for infrastructure and application management. OpsWorks also maintains your Puppet master server by automatically patching, updating, and backing up your server. OpsWorks eliminates the need to operate your own configuration management systems or worry about maintaining its infrastructure. OpsWorks gives you access to all of the Puppet Enterprise features, which you manage through the Puppet console.

    3. AWS Opsworks for Chef Automate: AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate is a fully-managed configuration management service that hosts Chef Automate, a suite of automation tools from Chef for configuration management, compliance and security, and continuous deployment. OpsWorks also maintains your Chef server by automatically patching, updating, and backing up your server. OpsWorks eliminates the need to operate your own configuration management systems or worry about maintaining its infrastructure. OpsWorks gives you access to all of the Chef Automate features, such as configuration and compliance management, which you manage through the Chef console or command line tools like Knife

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