Enabling hybrid operations on AWS

The operations phase, a phase in our IT resource lifecycle where said resource spend most of their time - be that in patching, maintaining, running ad-hoc scripts, configuring. It is hard enough to do that at scale sometimes, but doing it across a hybrid infrastructure can be even more daunting. How can we make that better? Let's have a look at some best practices, tools, and resources to make your day to day operations, that much easier!

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1. Enabling hybrid operations on AWS Darko Meszaros Developer Advocate - AWS @darkosubotica ln/darko-mesaros twitch.tv/ruptwelve youtu.be/ruptwelve
2. What will we talk about today? • What is Hybrid? • What are Operations? • Operations in a Hybrid Cloud • Best Practices
3. © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
4. Agility Complexity and risk Benefits of cloud Accelerate time to market Innovation Scale seamlessly Optimize costs Minimize security vulnerabilities Reduce management complexity
5. Why do customers need hybrid cloud? Run workloads on-premises Run workloads in the cloud Provide tight integration Leverage skills and resources
6. Hybrid cloud stats $96B Source: IDC, Rightscale, Forrester, Markets & Markets 71% 75% On-premises Cloud Hybrid cloud Size of hybrid market by 2023 Organizations with hybrid deployments Enterprise applications that are still on-premises
7. Hybrid architecture goals Operational consistency Existing skillsets and tools Simple to control, manage, secure Enterprise-class app SLA Build once, deploy anywhere
8. Data center extension Cloud bursting Backup and disaster recovery to the cloud Application migration Geographic expansion
9. $(whoami) Darko Mesaroš / Darko Meszaros / Дарко Месарош @darkosubotica ln/darko-mesaros twitch.tv/ruptwelve youtu.be/ruptwelve
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11. So, what do you think are operations?
12. Operations with agility Optimize Analyze and reduce cost, improve efficiency and security posture Act Take operational action on resources Audit Audit resource configurations, user access, and policy enforcement Monitor Monitor resources and applications
13. Operations with agility Monitor resources and applications Optimize to reduce cost and improve security posture Manage resources and take operational action Audit user activity and resource configurations Amazon CloudWatch AWS Trusted Advisor AWS Cost and Usage Report AWS Cost Explorer AWS Systems Manager AWS CloudTrail AWS Config
14. Observability is key to success
15. Amazon CloudWatch Complete observability of cloud resources and applications Monitor Visualize applications and infrastructure, correlate logs and metrics, set alerts Act Automate responses to operational changes Collect Metrics and logs form resources, applications, and services on AWS and on premises Analyze Real-time analysis with CloudWatch Metric Math and CloudWatch Logs Insights
16. A central point from which to manage operations
17. Any environment Operate any AWS or external resource centrally Open Agent is open-sourced on GitHub Multi-platform Windows and Linux support Automated Multi-account, multi-Region automation AWS Systems Manager Centrally manage hybrid cloud resources at any scale
18. Enough talk – I want action!
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20. Perform operations as code • Apply the same engineering discipline that you use for application code to your entire environment. • Define your entire workload (applications, infrastructure, etc.) as code. • Make updates through code
21. Make frequent, small, reversible changes • Design workloads to allow components to be updated regularly • Make changes in small increments that can be reversed. • These changes – if they fail – should not affect your customers.
22. Refine operations procedures frequently • Look for opportunities to improve operational procedures as you do them • Evolve your workload -> evolve your operations. • Playbooks vs Runbooks • Game Days are fun!
23. Anticipate failure • Pre-Mortem excercises • Test your failure scenarios. • Test your response procedures! • Game Days are still fun!
24. Pagers and Notifications • Have an action per notification! • Do not page/notify someone unless there is something to do. • Notify the right person
25. Things to note: • Well-Architected framework • DevOps Hanbook - book • https://aws.amazon.com/hybrid/
26. Thank you! © 2020, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Darko Meszaros Developer Advocate - AWS @darkosubotica ln/darko-mesaros twitch.tv/ruptwelve youtu.be/ruptwelve