AWS SysOperations

Part 2 Lab Instructions-

  1. Download a keypair from email or create one from the aws console
  2. Open a github account
  1. Go to the GitHub sign up page.
  2. Enter a username, valid email address, and password.Use at least one lowercase letter, one numeral, and seven characters.
  3. Review carefully the GitHub Terms of Service and Privacy Policy before continuing. ...
  4. Choose a plan. ...
  5. Tailor experience. ...
  6. You finished!

Part 3 Lab Instructions- add a stack, phpapp layer and elb with defaults and change ping path to /index.php

  1. Instructions in book learning aws opsworks pg 23-26 to add a stack
  2. Create a classic load balancer    make sure ping path is index.php
  3. page 27-32 to add a layer and select your newly created ELB

 

Part 4 Lab Instructions

  1. Create a repository on github
  2.  configure opsworks to work with it pg 41
  3. add a mysql layer pg 46

Part 5 Lab Instructions- Instructions in book learning aws opsworks 

create 2 24/7 instances for our php app server layer. Create 1 load based instance and configure autoscale options. Create a mysql db instance. -pg 52-58

*workflow is a bit changed. To add 2 24/7 instaces. Change size to t2micro, subnet to us east 1c,ssh key: select a keypair that was created earlier leave other defaults in place.

To add a load based instance click edit configuration, set scaling configuration to on and leave the default values and click save. Then add a load based instance with the same values of the 24/7 instance

To add a mysqldb instance click add instance in the mysql section of the instances page.

 

Part 6 Lab Instructions- Add an app  pg 61-65 Then Deploy the app  pg 67-70

  1. Add an app  pg 61-65 Add the url of the demo site to the app settings https://github.com/todd-vivisurf/opsworks-book-demo.git

URL To Demo App Repository

Deploy the app  pg 67-70

2. To Fix DB Connection error (Optional)- pg 70-73

  1. Fork a repository to modify the db file

      2. Edit php DBConnect File online

3. update opsworks apps layer to reflect the newly forked repository url.

4.rerun the deployment

Part 7 Lab Instructions

  1. Enable Billing Alerts
  2. Create A Billing Alarm
  3. Check The Alarm Status

Part 8 Lab Instructions- Instructions in book learning aws opsworks pg 83-89

IAM roles and access setup user and connect with the new user

Part 9 Lab Instructions- Run command reports page 93-96

Putty (Windows) instructions

Part 10 Lab Instructions - Instructions in book learning aws opsworks

clone staging to production

Learning AWS OpsWorks