Amazon launches Chef-based management platform

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Mikael Ricknäs.

Amazon Web Services has introduced OpsWorks, a cloud-based platform powered by the Chef framework, which will give enterprises more integrated tools for managing the complete application life cycle. Enterprises have started asking for more sophisticated tools to manage their AWS resources and automate application deployments because their cloud-based infrastructures are becoming bigger and more complex, Amazon said on Monday.

AWS OpsWorks is available now as a beta and is targeted at DevOps users who want better management and automation tools to help them customize and control their environments. It can be used for resource provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, software updates, monitoring, and access control at no extra cost through the AWS Management Console, SDKs, and Command Line Interface, according to Amazon…

In OpsWorks, users start by creating a stack, which is a container for all the EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances and other resources that they want to manage together. Applications, user permissions, and other resources are controlled in the context of the Stack. Within a stack, users define layers that describe how to provision and configure instances. A layer can, for example, specify what packages to install, which security groups to add and Elastic IP addresses to assign, according to Amazon. To help users, layers for Ruby, PHP, Node.js, load balancer HAProxy, caching platform Memcached, and MySQL are included, it said…

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