AWS Resource Management by Kien Do

Presented by Kien Do at NoVA DevOps on 9/19/2017 (Talk 3)

Transcript

1. 1 Confidential AWS Resource Management Kien Do
2. 2 Confidential Agenda •  AWS resource management •  Manual/Automated AMI Rehydration •  Automated start and stop EC2 instances •  Demo •  Q&A
3. 3 Confidential Automated AMI Rehydration •  Why? –  Keep EC2 instances up-to-date AMI (Amazon Machine Image) for latest security updates, agent updates and other enhancements. •  How to find an approved AMI? –  Given specific region, operating system, AWS account.
4. 4 Confidential Automated AMI Rehydration •  Manually update causes issues: 1.  Error prone 2.  Time consuming 3.  Easy to skip the AMI updates when the team is busy •  Automated with CI/CD pipeline 1.  Schedule to run it weekly or on demand. 2.  Automatically identify an updated AMI. 3.  Integrate with CI/CD.
5. 5 Confidential Manual Rehydration
6. 6 Confidential How do we automate?
7. 7 Confidential Automated AMI Rehydration •  Step 1: Set up a Jenkins cron job or Schedule CloudWatch Event
8. 8 Confidential Automated AMI Rehydration •  Step 2: Implementation AWS CLI or Lambda to get latest AMI
9. 9 Confidential Automated AMI Rehydration •  Step 3: Compare current AMI with latest AMI and trigger a rehydration job if needed
10. 10 Confidential Automated AMI Rehydration (End State)
11. 11 Confidential Demo
12. 12 Confidential Automated start and stop EC2 instances •  Why? 1.  Reduce operational costs in Non-prod environment during off-hours •  How much will it save per year? 1.  24 hours x 365 days = 8760 hours 2.  12 hours x 5 days x 52 weeks = 3120 hours 3.  Saving 65% of your EC2 bill
13. 13 Confidential Automated start and stop EC2 instances •  Leverage AWS Scheduled Actions
14. 14 Confidential References •  http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/ec2/describe-images.html •  http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/autoscaling/ index.html#cli-aws-autoscaling •  https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/