AWS administration cookbook / Lucas Chan, Rowan Udell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chan, Lucas, author.

Udell, Rowan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Amazon Web Services (Firm).

Cloud computing.

Web services.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (383 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, [England] ; Mumbai, [India] : Packt Publishing, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Udell Rowan: Rowan Udell has been working in development and operations for 15 years. His travels have seen him work in start-ups and enterprises in the finance, education, and web industries in both Australia and Canada. He currently works as a Technical Director at Versent, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, working with teams building cloud-native products on AWS. He specializes in serverless applications and architectures on AWS, and contributes actively in the AWS and serverless communities. Chan Lucas: Lucas Chan has been working in tech since 1995 in a variety of development, systems admin, and DevOps roles. He is currently a senior consultant and engineer at Versent and was a technical director at Stax. He's been running production workloads on AWS for over 10 years. He's also a member of the APAC AWS warriors program and holds all five of the available AWS certifications.

Summary:

Build, automate, and manage your AWS-based cloud environments About This Book Install, configure, and administer computing, storage, and networking in the AWS cloud Automate your infrastructure and control every aspect of it through infrastructure as code Work through exciting recipes to administer your AWS cloud Who This Book Is For If you are an administrator, DevOps engineer, or an IT professional who is moving to an AWS-based cloud environment, then this book is for you. It assumes familiarity with cloud computing platforms, and that you have some understanding of virtualization, networking, and other administration-related tasks. What You Will Learn Discover the best practices to achieve an automated repeatable infrastructure in AWS Bring down your IT costs by managing AWS successfully and deliver high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability Make any website faster with static and dynamic caching Create monitoring and alerting dashboards using CloudWatch Migrate a database to AWS Set up consolidated billing to achieve simple and effective cost management with accounts Host a domain and find out how you can automate health checks In Detail Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a bundled remote computing service that provides cloud computing infrastructure over the Internet with storage, bandwidth, and customized support for application programming interfaces (API). Implementing these services to efficiently administer your cloud environments is a core task. This book will help you build and administer your cloud environment with AWS. We'll begin with the AWS fundamentals, and you'll build the foundation for the recipes you'll work on throughout the book. Next, you will find out how to manage multiple accounts and set up consolidated billing. You will then learn to set up reliable and fast hosting for static websites, share data between running instances, and back up your data for compliance. Moving on, you will find out how to use the compute service to enable consistent and fast instance provisioning, and will see how to provision storage volumes and autoscale an application server. Next, you'll discover how to effectively use the networking and database service of AWS. You will also learn about the different management tools of AWS along with securing your AWS cloud. Finally, you will learn to estimate the costs for your cloud. By the end of the book, you will be able to easily administer your AWS cloud. Style and approach This practical g...

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: AWS Fundamentals

Introduction

Creating an account

Regions and Availability Zones

The AWS web console

CloudFormation templates

Infrastructure as Code

Visibility

Consistency

Troubleshooting

Scale

Costs

DevOps

Server configuration

IaC on AWS

CloudFormation

What is CloudFormation?

Why is CloudFormation important?

The layer cake

YAML versus JSON

A closer look at CloudFormation templates

Parameters

Resources

Outputs

Mappings

Dependencies and ordering

Functions

Fn::Join

Fn::Sub

Conditionals

Permissions and service roles

Custom resources

Cross-stack references

Updating resources

Change sets

Other things to know

Name collisions

Rollback

Limits

Circular dependencies

DSLs and generators

Credentials

Stack policies

The command-line interface tool

Installation

Upgrade

Configuration

Default profile

Named profiles

Environment variables

Instance roles

Usage

Commands

Subcommands

Options

Output

JSON

Table

Text

Querying

Generate CLI skeleton

Input

Pagination

Autocomplete

Related tools

jq

Chapter 2: Managing AWS Accounts

Setting up a master account

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Multi-factor authentication

Using the CLI

See also

Creating a member account

Getting ready

Accessing the member account

Service control policies

Root credentials

Deleting accounts

Inviting an account

How it works.

There's more...

Removing accounts

Consolidated billing

Managing your accounts

Getting the root ID for your organization

Creating an OU

Getting the ID of an OU

Adding an account to an OU

Removing an account from an OU

Deleting an OU

Adding a service control policy

Chapter 3: Storage and Content Delivery

Storage

Elastic Block Store

Elastic File System

Simple Storage Service

Glacier

Content delivery

Hosting a static website

Creating S3 buckets and hosting content

Creating a hosted zone

Creating DNS records

Uploading website content

Delegating your domain to AWS

Cross-origin resource sharing

Caching a website

About dynamic content

Configuring CloudFront distributions

Working with network storage

Backing up data for compliance

Chapter 4: Using AWS Compute

Creating a key pair

Launching an instance

Attaching storage

Securely accessing private instances

Auto scaling an application server

Scaling policies

Alarms

Creating machine images

How to do it.

How it works...

Template

Validate the template

Build the AMI

Debugging

Orphaned resources

Deregistering AMIs

Other platforms

Creating security groups

Differences from traditional firewalls

Creating a load balancer

HTTPS/SSL

Path-based routing

Chapter 5: Management Tools

Auditing your AWS account

Recommendations with Trusted Advisor

Creating e-mail alarms

Existing topics

Other subscriptions

Publishing custom metrics in CloudWatch

Cron

Auto scaling

Backfilling

Creating monitoring dashboards

Widget types

Creating a budget

Feeding log files into CloudWatch logs

Chapter 6: Database Services

Creating a database with automatic failover

Creating a NAT gateway

Creating a database read-replica

Promoting a read-replica to master

Creating a one-time database backup

Restoring a database from a snapshot

There's more.

Migrating a database

Database engines

Ongoing replication

Multi-AZ

Calculating DyanmoDB performance

Burst capacity

Metrics

Eventually consistent reads

Chapter 7: Networking

Building a secure network

See also...

Canary deployment via DNS

Hosting a domain

Routing based on location with failover

Normal operation (geolocation routing)

Region A failure

Region B failure

Network logging and troubleshooting

Log format

Updates

Omissions

Chapter 8: Security and Identity

Federating with your AWS account

Active Directory configuration

Auth Account policy configuration

Auth Account role configuration

Simple AD configuration

App Account role configuration

Creating SSL certificates

EC2 instances

Importing certificates

Active Directory as a service

Creating users

Creating instance roles

Cross-account user roles

AWS CLI profiles

Storing secrets

Key aliases

Secret reader role

Secret writer role

The put-file command

Versioning

Chapter 9: Estimating Costs

Calculating costs

Estimating CloudFormation template costs

Purchasing reserved instances

Estimating total cost of ownership

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 11, 2017).

ISBN:

9781787121522

1787121526

OCLC:

986525903