Auto Scaling with Amazon Web Services

A 5 minutes introduction of how we build auto scaling with Amazon Web Services, and integrating it with deployment flow.

Transcript

1. Auto Scaling
   with
   Amazon Web Services
   

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2. Hello!
   I am JeDDie
   A software engineer; a Rails developer.
   

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3. We are
   LIVE streaming video platform in Taiwan
   

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4. We have the needs
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5. > for?
   ◎ A robust service
   ◉ Traffic peak
   ◎ Dynamic service base
   ◉ Reasonable costs
   

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6. How do we do it?
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7. > Investigate
   ◎ Monitor traffic
   ◎ Analyze data
   ◎ Choose the scaling strategy
   ◉ Metrics
   ◉ Threshold
   

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8. > Take Actions
   ◎ Autoscaler
   ◉ Ruby robot
   ◎ Amazon web services
   ◉ Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
   ◉ Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
   ◉ Command Line Interface (CLI)
   ◉ ElastiCache
   ◎ Jenkins
   

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9. Auto Scaling Flow
   autoscaler
   service (EC2)
   load balancing
   

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10. Auto scale Deploy flow
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11. start
    deploy
    launch
    instance
    Don’t miss the target!
    

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12. Communicable
    Talk to me, autoscaler!
    Icon is made by Masanobu Imai from jenkins-ci.org, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
    

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13. EC2
    service
    Amazon Web Services
    Load Balancing
    monitor
    ElastiCache
    info exchange
    

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14. release scale up
    Simple, clear, but not messy.
    

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15. Thanks!
    Any questions?
    

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16. AWS CLI (API)
    ◎ ec2
    ◉ run-instances
    ◉ allocate-address
    ◉ associate-address
    ◉ disassociate-address
    ◉ release-address
    ◉ terminate-instances
    ◎ elb
    ◉ register/deregister
    

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17. AWS CLI (API)
    ◎ ec2
    ◉ deployment
    ￮ describe-instance
    ￮ create-image
    

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18. Credits
    Special thanks to all the people
    who made and released these
    awesome resources for free:
    ◎ Presentation template by
    SlidesCarnival
    ◎ Photographs by Unsplash
    

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