AWS OpsWorks

Overview

• Chef & Puppet helps you perform server configuration automatically, or repetitive actions

• They work great with EC2 & On-PremisesVM

• AWS OpsWorks = Managed Chef & Puppet

• It’s an alternative to AWS SSM

• Only provision standard AWS resources:

  • EC2 Instances, Databases, Load Balancers, EBS volumes...

• In the exam: Chef or Puppet needed => AWS OpsWorks

OpsWorks Architecture