Learning AWS OpsWorks -- Table of Contents -- Learning AWS OpsWorks -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Instant Updates on New Packt Books -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. A New Way to Scale -- High-level OpsWorks -- Stacks -- Layers -- Instances -- Apps -- The origin of OpsWorks -- The importance of OpsWorks -- The role of DevOps -- OpsWorks for the startup -- Summary -- 2. Welcome to AWS OpsWorks -- Creating an AWS account -- The dashboard -- Summary -- 3. Stack it Up! -- Multistage environments -- Development environment -- Staging environment -- Production environment -- Automated build environment -- Adding a stack -- Regions -- Availability zones -- IAM roles -- Default SSH key -- Hostname theme -- Stack color -- Advanced -- Inside the stack -- Layer types -- Elastic Load Balancer -- Algorithms -- Protocols -- Traffic spikes -- Timeouts -- HAProxy -- ELB creation -- Summary -- 4. Layers - the Blueprint for Success -- Configuring layers -- Built-in Chef recipes -- Custom Chef recipes -- Elastic Load Balancer -- EBS volumes -- Elastic IPs -- OS Packages -- Security groups -- IAM instance profile -- Auto healing -- MySQL layer -- Summary -- 5. In an Instance -- Instance types -- Instance scaling types -- 24/7 instances -- Time-based instances -- Load-based instances -- Adding instances -- Adding 24/7 instances -- Adding load-based instances -- Start/stop servers in batches of -- If thresholds are exceeded/undershot for -- After scaling up/down, ignore metrics for -- Average CPU, memory, and load -- MySQL instance -- Summary -- 6. Bring the Apps!.

Continuous integration -- Distributed is the new centralized -- GitHub -- Local IDE (Integrated Development Environment) -- Adding an app -- Settings -- Application source -- Add domains -- SSL settings -- Deploy, edit, and delete -- Deploy -- Edit -- Delete -- Capistrano -- Summary -- 7. Big Brother -- Amazon CloudWatch -- OpsWorks monitoring -- Stack metrics -- Layer metrics -- Instance metrics -- Summary -- 8. Access Control -- Identity and Access Management -- Secure by default -- Integration -- JSON and IAM policies -- IAM users and groups -- OpsWorks and IAM -- OpsWorks as an IAM user -- Signing in -- Enabling SSH access via MindTerm -- Summary -- 9. Instance Agent Command Line Interface -- Connecting via SSH -- Java SSH client connections -- Connect directly -- Connect with a standalone SSH client -- Instance Agent CLI -- Reporting agent -- Getting JSON -- Instance reporting -- Listing commands -- Lifecycle commands -- Show agent logging -- State of the stack -- Summary -- 10. Multi-region Architecture -- Production stack -- Multi-region -- Amazon Route 53 -- OpsWorks and Route 53 -- Simple routing policy -- Weighted routing policy -- Latency routing policy -- Failover routing policy -- Summary -- Index.