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After getting over the excitement of the scaling and cost-saving possibilities offered by Amazon Web Services, system administrators quickly come up against complexities and gotchas in the management of systems. How can they make sure auto-scaling kicks in when it is suppose to? How do they make sure DNS sends traffic to the right systems? How do they integrate automated management tools such as Chef and Puppet?
This book is a comprehensive guide to the administrative features of AWS and how to make the most of them to minimize your administrative work. You'll learn how to configure and manage powerful AWS tools, such as CloudFormation, OpsWorks, Elastic Load Balancing, and Route 53. AWS administration is no easier than stand-alone server Administration - it's just different, and very rewarding once you set up your automation right. This book shows you how.
Topics include:
CloudFormation
Access Management and Security Groups
Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing
Opworks
Building Reusable Components
Log Management
DNS with Route53
Monitoring
Backups
About the author
Mike has worked as a system administrator since the early 2000s in a variety of roles, including an ISP, at Greenpeace, and most recently a social media startup. In recent years, he have spent increasing amounts of time working with cloud services such as AWS, which has dovetailed perfectly with his love of automation and scalability.
As well as doing system administration as a day job, he is also building his own AWS-based startup. Cloudfrag provides on-demand game servers and relies heavily on a wide range of AWS services.
Federico Lucifredi was the lead Product Manager for Ubuntu Server, Amazon Web Services' most popular operating system. While at Canonical, Federico led the Certified Public Cloud program, ensuring the seamless integration of Ubuntu into AWS and other public clouds. He is currently the Ceph Product Management Director at Red Hat, and can be reached on Twitter as @0xF2.
Federico is a graduate of Boston College and Harvard University. He is a frequent speaker at user group and conference events.
Summary
This comprehensive guide shows developers and system administrators how to configure and manage AWS services including EC2, CloudFormation, Elastic Load Balancing, S3, and Route 53.
