OpsWorks (discontinued)

configuration management service

Overview

• A configuration management service

• Help you automate: provisioning, configuration, management

• Keyword: chef

Features

Automation

IaC

Chef & Puppet

Lifecycle events

Monitoring & auto-healing

Concepts

• Cookbook (Chef):

• Module (Puppet):

• Stack: must contain one or more layers.
• Layer: must contain atleast 1 instance.
• Instance: can be member of multiple layers.

Trivia

• If you not familiar with Chef or Puppet, the learning curve is huge.