Learn how AWS services can make it easier for you to rapidly release new features, help you avoid downtime during deployment, and handle the complexity of updating your applications.

1. Application Deployment
on AWS
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Ian Massingham — Technical Evangelist

2. Before we start …
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3. What will we cover?
Options for Application Deployment on AWS
Resources you can use to learn more
Some Background1
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4. Some
Background

6. Startups on AWS
http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/
Meerkat

8. 400,000
people are hosted
on any given night

9. Up by Over 10 Million in One Year
Total Number of Guests
Sep 2008 Mar 2009 Sep 2013Sep 2009 Mar 2013Sep 2012Mar 2012Sep 2011Mar 2011Mar 2010 Sep 2010
June 2014
15 Million
3M
Mar 2014 Jun 2014
6M
9M
12M
15M
June 2015
25 Million

10. 0
350
700
1,050
1,400
2010 2014
24 48
432
1,300
Total Number of EC2 instances

11. Why AWS?

12. EC2
Servers, Production Traffic,
Hive, Hadoop
RDS
All Relational Databases
S3
Storage, User Generated
Content
DynamoDB
Rollups, Metadata
ElastiCache
Memcache
Route 53
DNS, Inventory

13. We have a 5 person
operations team.
AWS allows us to devote our resources
and mindshare to the core business.
“
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14. Deployment
Options

15. Deployment & Management
Containers
Dev/ops Tools
Resource Templates
Usage Tracking
Monitoring and Logs

16. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web
applications and services developed with Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby,
Go, and Docker on familiar servers such as Apache, Nginx, Passenger, and IIS.
AWS CodeDeploy
AWS CodeDeploy makes it easier for you to rapidly release new features, helps
you avoid downtime during deployment, and handles the complexity of updating
your applications.
AWS CloudFormation
AWS CloudFormation gives developers and systems administrators an easy way
to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and
updating them in an orderly and predictable fashion.

17. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web
applications and services developed with Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby,
Go, and Docker on familiar servers such as Apache, Nginx, Passenger, and IIS.
AWS CodeDeploy
AWS CodeDeploy makes it easier for you to rapidly release new features, helps
you avoid downtime during deployment, and handles the complexity of updating
your applications.
AWS CloudFormation
AWS CloudFormation gives developers and systems administrators an easy way
to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and
updating them in an orderly and predictable fashion.

18. DEMO: AWS ELASTIC BEANSTALK

19. Elastic Beanstalk: Deploy Applications with 7 Popular Containers

20. Alert
Log
Mon
AppELB AZ
http://your-app.elasticbeanstalk.com
Elastic Beanstalk
Deploy your app to a load balanced, auto scaled Environment

21. Alert
Log
Mon
App AZ
ELB
http://your-app.elasticbeanstalk.com
Elastic Beanstalk
Deploy your app to a load balanced, auto scaled Environment

22. Alert
DB
Log
Mon
App AZ
AZ
ELB
http://your-app.elasticbeanstalk.com
Elastic Beanstalk
Deploy your app to a load balanced, auto scaled Environment

23. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web
applications and services developed with Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby,
Go, and Docker on familiar servers such as Apache, Nginx, Passenger, and IIS.
AWS CodeDeploy
AWS CodeDeploy makes it easier for you to rapidly release new features, helps
you avoid downtime during deployment, and handles the complexity of updating
your applications.
AWS CloudFormation
AWS CloudFormation gives developers and systems administrators an easy way
to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and
updating them in an orderly and predictable fashion.

26. AWS CodeDeploy
• Scale from 1 instance to thousands
• Deploy without downtime
• Centralize deployment control and monitoring
• On-Premises support
Staging
CodeDeployv1, v2, v3
Production
Dev
Coordinate automated deployments, just like Amazon
Application
Revisions
Deployment Groups

27. DEMO: AWS CODEDEPLOY

28. 1) Package your application (with an AppSpec)
version: 0.0
os: linux
files:
- source: chef/
destination: /etc/chef/codedeploy
- source: target/hello.war
destination: /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps
hooks:
ApplicationStop:
- location: deploy_hooks/stop-tomcat.sh
BeforeInstall:
- location: deploy_hooks/install-chef.sh
AfterInstall:
- location: deploy_hooks/knife-install.sh
ApplicationStart:
- location: deploy_hooks/chef-solo.sh
ValidateService:
- location: deploy_hooks/verify_service.sh

29. 1) Package your application (with an AppSpec)
version: 0.0
os: linux
files:
- source: chef/
destination: /etc/chef/codedeploy
- source: target/hello.war
destination: /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps
hooks:
ApplicationStop:
- location: deploy_hooks/stop-tomcat.sh
BeforeInstall:
- location: deploy_hooks/install-chef.sh
AfterInstall:
- location: deploy_hooks/knife-install.sh
ApplicationStart:
- location: deploy_hooks/chef-solo.sh
ValidateService:
- location: deploy_hooks/verify_service.sh

30. 1) Package your application (with an AppSpec)
Start
BeforeInstall
ApplicationStart
ApplicationStop
Install
ValidateService
DownloadBundle
AfterInstall
End

31. 1) Package your application (with an AppSpec)
version: 0.0
os: linux
files:
- source: chef/
destination: /etc/chef/codedeploy
- source: target/hello.war
destination: /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps
hooks:
ApplicationStop:
- location: deploy_hooks/stop-tomcat.sh
BeforeInstall:
- location: deploy_hooks/install-chef.sh
AfterInstall:
- location: deploy_hooks/knife-install.sh
ApplicationStart:
- location: deploy_hooks/chef-solo.sh
ValidateService:
- location: deploy_hooks/verify_service.sh

32. 2) Set up your target environments
Agent Agent Agent
Staging
Agent Agent
Agent Agent
Agent
Agent
Production
Deployment GroupDeployment Group
• Group instances by:
• Auto Scaling group
• EC2 tag
• On-premises tag

33. 3) Deploy!
aws deploy create-deployment
--application-name MyApp
--deployment-group-name TargetGroup
--s3-location bucket=MyBucket,key=MyApp.zip
AWS CLI & SDKs
AWS Console
CI / CD Partners
GitHub

34. Deployment Config – Choose speed
v2 v1 v1 v1 v1 v1 v1 v1
v2 v2 v2 v2 v1 v1 v1 v1
v2 v2 v2 v2 v2 v2 v2 v2
One-at-a-Time
Half-at-a-Time
All-at-Once

35. Rolling Update – Deploy without downtime
v1v1 v1
Load Balancer

36. Rolling Update – Deploy without downtime
v1v2 v1
Load Balancer

37. Rolling Update – Deploy without downtime
v2v2 v1
Load Balancer

38. Rolling Update – Deploy without downtime
v2v2 v2
Load Balancer

39. Rolling Update – Deploy without downtime
v2v2 v2
Load Balancer

40. Health Tracking – Catch deployment problems
v3 v2 v2Stop
Load Balancer

41. Health Tracking – Catch deployment problems
v2v2 v2
Load Balancer
Rollback

42. Health Tracking – Catch deployment problems
v2v2 v2
Load Balancer

43. AWS CodePipeline
• Inspired by Pipelines
• Flexible workflow engine
• Extensible, plugin based architecture
Continuous delivery and release automation, just like Amazon
Build
1) Build
2) Unit test
1) Deploy
2) UI test
Source Beta Production
1) Deploy
2) Load test
Gamma
1) Deploy region1
2) Deploy region2
3) Deploy region3

44. AWS CodeCommit
• Data redundancy across AZs
• Data at rest encryption
• Integrated with AWS Identity and Access Management
• No repo size limit
git
push CodeCommit
Git objects
in S3
Git index
in DynamoDB
Encryption key
in KMS
SSH or HTTPS
Secure, scalable, and managed Git source control

45. AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web
applications and services developed with Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby,
Go, and Docker on familiar servers such as Apache, Nginx, Passenger, and IIS.
AWS CodeDeploy
AWS CodeDeploy makes it easier for you to rapidly release new features, helps
you avoid downtime during deployment, and handles the complexity of updating
your applications.
AWS CloudFormation
AWS CloudFormation gives developers and systems administrators an easy way
to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and
updating them in an orderly and predictable fashion.

46. AWS CloudFormation
An easy way to create & manage a collection of AWS resources
Allows orderly and predictable provisioning and updating of resources
Allows you to version control your AWS infrastructure
Deploy and update stacks using console, command line or API
You only pay for the resources you create

47. https://youtu.be/6R44BADNJA8

48. Building With Smaller Blocks
Quicker to build Lower costEasier to adapt and update
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49. Containers, the Cloud & Application Architecture
Application
portability
Environment
fidelity
Continuous
deployment
High availability
& scale

50. The Four Horsemen of Container-Based Applications
Application
components
Resource
description
Capacity
pool
Placement
& management
1 2 3 4

51. Launch and terminate
Docker containers
Across a cluster
of EC2 instances
Mount persistent
volumes at launch
Private Docker
repositories
Amazon EC2 Container Service

52. EC2 Container Service Is Now Generally Available
Available to
all customers
New
Management
console
New
Geographic
expansion
US East, US West, EU West
and Japan
New
CloudTrail
integration
New
aws.amazon.com/ecs

53. λAWS Lambda
An event-driven computing service for
dynamic applications

54. A Focus on Functions, Data and Events
AutomaticCloud FunctionsEvents from AWS services

55. RESOURCES YOU CAN USE
TO LEARN MORE

56. aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk
aws.amazon.com/codedeploy
aws.amazon.com/cloudformation

57. aws.amazon.com/ecs

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Ian Massingham — Technical Evangelist