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Use OpsWorks - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: AWS for DevOps: Monitoring, Metrics, and Logging
Use OpsWorks
- [Instructor] The next service is OpsWorks. This is a configuration management service that lets you build and operate highly dynamic applications and propagate changes instantly. So you have two ways to work with this. You have stacks, so you can define, group, provision, deploy, and operate your applications in AWS using Chef which is a third-party deployment tool in local mode. Or you have OpsWorks for Chef Automate, and you can create Chef servers that include Chef Automate premium features, or use the Chef DK or any Chef tooling to manage them. Now this is very specialized, but of course Chef and also there's another tool called Puppet, are highly, highly used in the DevOps base to automate deployments. So the idea is to work in conjunction with these popular solutions. I haven't set Chef up, and there are separate courses in the LinkedIn Learning library on Chef, so I'll just lightly sort of look at this, so you can see how the Amazon side works. So I'll click on Go to OpsWorks…
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