Introduction to AWS OpsWorks
What is AWS OpsWorks?
Opsworks is an integrated application management solution for Ops-minded developers and IT admins. It is a DevOps offered by Amazon, where one can do operations such as Mode, Control, and Automate Applications of nearly any scale and complexity.
Mode, Control, and Automate Applications
- Note: DevOps is a software development method that stresses communication, collaboration, and integration between software developers and Information Technology (IT) operations professional
- The AWS OpsWork also has the feature of reducing errors with conventional scripted configuration. OpsWork is based on the Chef tool and works on receipts and the scripting languages will be based on these receipts.
- The feature of the Elastic Beanstalk container is that it is completely managed by Amazon. The OpsWork will be working as ‘Chef+Custom AMI’ concept, where we create layers. On top of it, the application is deployed along with the code.
Beanstalk vs OpsWork vs Cloud Formation
USAGE — The Cloud Formation and OpsWork are both used for application modeling, deployment, configuration, and related activities. On the other hand, Elastic Beanstalk is an easy-to-use application management service for building web applications and web services with popular application containers, such as Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, and .Net. It is also used to launch an application server and an instance.
SUPPORT — In OpsWork one can perform certain modeling and deployment but compare to cloud formation, it supports a very narrow range of applications. It supports EC2, EBS, and Cloudwatch. The Cloud Formation alternatively supports each and every application of Amazon including Elastic Beanstalk & EBS.
MODEL- The biggest difference between OpsWork and Cloud Formation would be a higher level of services, which focuses on DevOps experience. In Cloud Formation, it doesn’t follow any model, and the template is directly created and exited. The Cloud Formation is best suitable when there is a need for large support for application and template models. Elastic Beanstalk is optimized for common web applications and web service patterns, while OpsWorks supports architectural patterns and not just web applications. OpsWorks employs an application management model, based on DevOps on concepts, such as stacks and layers. It will provide an integrating experience for deployment, monitoring, auto-scaling, and automation. But in Cloud Formation, does not follow any model. Here, customers define templates and use them to provision and manage AWS resources, operating systems, and application code.
Choosing the right option
- If the user needs an easy-to-use service to build apps, then Beanstalk is the best option.
- If the user requires a DevOps model, which needs a powerful end-to-end platform, OpsWork works best.
- If the user requires management-by-provider, then EC2 is the best option.
This is it guys this brings us to the end of this article. If you wish to check out more articles on the market’s most trending technologies like Artificial Intelligence, DevOps, Ethical Hacking, then you can refer to Edureka’s official site.
Do look out for other articles in this series that will explain the various other aspects of DevOps.
2. Git Tutorial
9. How To Orchestrate DevOps Tools?
13. Continuous Delivery vs Continuous Deployment
14. CI CD Pipeline
15. Docker Compose
16. Docker Swarm
18. Ansible Vault
19. Ansible Roles
20. Ansible for AWS
21. Jenkins Pipeline
23. Git vs GitHub
24. Top Git Commands
25. DevOps Interview Questions
28. Git Reflog
30. Top DevOps Skills That Organizations Are Looking For
33. Ansible Interview Questions And Answers
34. 50 Docker Interview Questions
36. Jenkins Interview Questions
39. Linux commands Used In DevOps
42. Nagios Interview Questions
44.Difference between Jenkins and Jenkins X
46.Git vs Github
Originally published at https://www.edureka.co on August 27, 2014.
