Auto-scaling Applications in 10 Minutes

This talk will show how to deploy a CakePHP application with AWS OpsWorks. It will cover auto scalling by time range or server load, and how the load is distributed between the servers.

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1. Auto Scaling
   Applications in
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   Juan Basso @jrbasso
   System Architect - Zumba Fitness
   

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2. Ingredients
   AWS Account
   AWS OpsWorks
   Chef Cookbooks
   Your Awesome App
   Some Money
   Patience
   

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3. Some Terms
   AWS: Amazon Web Services
   EC2: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
   ELB: Elastic Load Balancing
   RDS: Amazon Relational Database Service
   

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4. Architecture Evolution
   

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5. Starting
   

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6. Separate the Load
   

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7. More Instances for the Load
   

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8. Auto Scaling
   

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9. Getting There With OpsWorks
   

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10. What is OpsWorks?
    Free Tool with AWS Account
    Simple Interface for Setup the Deployment
    Easy Setup of Auto Scaling
    DevOps Application Management Service
    

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11. What is Necessary?
    AWS Account
    Application in Some Repository
    Create Chef Cookbooks
    Put the Cookbooks on Some Repository
    

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13. Components
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    Application
    

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14. OpsWorks Step-By-Step
    

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15. Links and Configs
    Application: git://github.com/croogo/croogo.git (tag v1.5.3)
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16. Create the Load Balancer
    

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17. Create the Database
    

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18. Welcome Page from OpsWorks
    

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19. Creating the Stack (Part 1)
    

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20. Creating the Stack (Part 2)
    

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21. Creating PHP Layer
    

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22. Configuring PHP Layer
    

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23. Before Setup Instances
    

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24. Creating the Instance
    

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25. 24/7 Instance Created
    

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26. Created Load and Time Based
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27. Setting Up Time Based
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28. Setting Up Load Based
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29. Creating Application
    

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30. Application Created
    

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31. Monitoring Servers
    

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32. Auto Starting a Load Instance
    

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33. Questions?
    

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