AWS & SilverStripe 4

How to setup and use AWS Autoscaling with SilverStripe 4

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1. AWS & SilverStripe 4
   Twisted Bytes
   

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2. About Twisted Bytes
   ● Hosting Service Company
   ● Helping companies with Hosting
   ● Setup, Maintain and Monitor
   ● Based in Enschede,
   The Netherlands
   ● Twitter: @twistedbytes_nl
   ● http://www.twistedbytes.nl
   

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3. About me
   ● Developer → sysadmin
   ● Linux, setup & maintain
   servers and infrastructure
   ● Know software dev & sys admin
   ● Twitter: @DerkGortemaker
   

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4. This Talk
   ● AWS
   ● SilverStripe on AWS
   ● Deployment
   ● Demo & Costs
   ● Pros and Cons
   

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5. What is "AWS"
   ● Services
   ○ "easy" scaling
   ● Regions and AZ's
   

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6. What is "AWS"
   

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7. Why AWS
   ● "Easy" Scaling and HA
   ● Add and remove servers
   ● Shared resources
   ● Scaling on servers only is hard
   ● Many features and tools
   

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8. Scaling SilverStripe
   ● Servers / VM's
   ● Database
   ● Load Balancer
   ● Shared File System for assets
   

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9. What to create
   ● Network
   ● Servers
   ● Database
   ● Load Balancer
   ● NFS
   

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10. What to create (2)
    ● Auto scaling setup
    ● Defined servers
    ● Puppet
    ● Create a server fast
    

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11. Deployment
    ● Where are the servers….
    ● CodeDeploy
    ● Scripts to run on hooks
    ● Buddy
    

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12. How to create it all???
    ● About 70 things to configure
    ● Use Terraform
    ● All-in-one Git repo
    ○ SS4, vagrant, buddy
    ○ terraform, CodeDeploy scripts
    

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13. Costs
    ● ~ $3 / per day = $90 / Month
    ● Database has 2 servers running
    + managed MySQL
    ● Load Balancer is more than
    expected
    

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14. Costs
    

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15. Pros
    ● Scales up and down
    automatically
    ● EFS and RDS
    ● Easy access to other AWS
    options
    

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16. Cons
    ● It's not easy to get started
    ● Costs a lot more
    ● Choices … Choices
    ● Workflow changes
    ● Not much IO by default
    ● Pricing is a puzzle...
    

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17. SilverStripe on AWS?
    ● Well…. That depends
    ● "Zero Downtime" -> probably
    ● Need IO -> Upcloud
    ● Same setup on Upcloud
    ○ $20 - $60
    ● Only when you need it
    

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18. Questions?
    

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19. I'd like to hear from you.
    Want to learn about a better way to have your
    hosting managed? Or have some ideas about what
    you are missing? Please contact us to exchange
    ideas.
    Vagrantbox -> twistedbytes/webserver
    www.twistedbytes.nl
    derk@twistedbytes.nl
    

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