1. Leverage Amazon Web Services to build Elastic IT-Infrastructure Architectures…

2. © Zühlke 2013 Introduction to Amazon Web Services Christian Tschenett Amazon Web Services One minute introduction 13. January 2013 Slide 2

3. Servers Web StorageLoad Balancer User(s) Client Amazon Web Services AWS Management Console DevOp

4. © Zühlke 2013 Introduction to Amazon Web Services Christian Tschenett Elastic Architectures A simplistic case… 13. January 2013 Slide 4

5. Data Center Europe Mitigate increasing load with horizontal scaling

6. © Zühlke 2013 Manual interface to the Data Center Hardware provisioning process partly consists of human tasks – Hardware procurement – Hardware installation – Network configuration – … Adding additional servers is a matter of days to weeks! Traditional Data Center Introduction to Amazon Web Services | Christian Tschenett Traditional Data Center 13. January 2013Slide 6

7. © Zühlke 2013Introduction to Amazon Web Services | Christian Tschenett Web Interface SOAP Interface Infrastructure-as-a-Service Provider Self-service interface to the Data Center (Web Console, API) Virtual-Hardware provisioning is fully automated Adding additional virtual servers is a matter of minutes! Infrastructure-as-a-Service Provider 13. January 2013Slide 7

8. © Zühlke 2013 Elastic Architecture with Auto Scaling Introduction to Amazon Web Services | Christian Tschenett t1: Medium Load Servers Nodes: 2 IaaS-Provider (AWS, …) t2: High Load => Scale up! Server Nodes: t3: Low Load => Scale Down! Server Nodes: 13. January 2013Slide 8

9. © Zühlke 2013 Introduction to Amazon Web Services Christian Tschenett Amazon Web Services Basic concepts and services 13. January 2013 Slide 9

10. © Zühlke 2013 Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Instances Introduction to Amazon Web Services | Christian Tschenett Sever Node «on-premise» EC2 Instance Elastic Block Storage «AWS» attached root device CPU, Memory, IO Disk - OS - Middleware - Applications 13. January 2013Slide 10

11. © Zühlke 2013 Amazon Machine Images (AMI) Introduction to Amazon Web Services | Christian Tschenett Node #1 «on-premise» Node #2 Disk Image «AWS» Instance #1 Instance #2 Amazon Machine Image run instance - OS - (Middleware) - (Applications) 13. January 2013Slide 11

12. © Zühlke 2013 Security Groups Introduction to Amazon Web Services | Christian Tschenett App #1 «on-premise» App #2 DB Web #1Web #2 DMZ App Zone Secure Zone Admin SG: allow SSH from Zühlke App #1 «AWS» App #2 Web #1 Web #2 DB App SG: allow 8080 from Web SG Web SG: allow HTTPS from * DB SG: allow 1521 from App SG 13. January 2013Slide 12

13. © Zühlke 2013 Elastic Load Balancers Introduction to Amazon Web Services | Christian Tschenett Node #1 «on-premise» Node #2 Load Balancer Instance #1 «AWS» Instance #2 Elastic Load Balancer availability- zone 1a availability- zone 1b 13. January 2013Slide 13

14. © Zühlke 2013 Simple Storage Service (S3) Introduction to Amazon Web Services | Christian Tschenett «on-premise» NAS / Archive / ~Web Server / … «AWS» S3 Bucket - Object Storage (up to 5 TB per Object) - SOAP & REST Interfaces - Authentication - Audit - … 13. January 2013Slide 14

15. © Zühlke 2013 Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Managed Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL Introduction to Amazon Web Services | Christian Tschenett «on-premise»«AWS» RDS DB Instance RDS DB Instance Standby availability- zone 1a availability- zone 1b RDBMS Software, Redundant HW, RAID Storage, Failover, Snapshots, Backup/Restore, Patches, … 13. January 2013Slide 15

16. © Zühlke 2013 Introduction to Amazon Web Services Christian Tschenett Amazon Web Services Putting it all together – back to the simplistic case… 13. January 2013 Slide 16

17. on premises solution Elastic Load Balancer EC2 Instance EBS Volume Availability Zone 1a Availability Zone 1b EC2 Security Group RDS Security Group RDS DB Instance Standby

18. © Zühlke 2013 1. rds-create-db-instance helloWorldDb --allocated-storage 5 --db-instance-class db.t1.micro --engine mysql --master-username masteruser --master-user-password masterpw1234 --db-security-groups helloRdsSg 2. rds-describe-db-instances helloWorldDb 3. rds-authorize-db-security-group-ingress helloRdsSg --cidr-ip 188.63.186.153/32 AWS command line tools Create an new MySQL Database Server Introduction to Amazon Web Services | Christian Tschenett13. January 2013Slide 18

19. © Zühlke 2013 1. echo "create database helloworlddb; use helloworlddb; create table message( mkey varchar(255), mval varchar(255)); insert into message(mkey,mval) values ('welcome','Hello from DB');" | mysql -u masteruser -pmasterpw1234 -h helloworlddb.….eu-west-1.rds.amazonaws.com MySQL command line tools Create database and tables, import data Introduction to Amazon Web Services | Christian Tschenett Not AWS specific (standard mysql) 13. January 2013Slide 19

20. © Zühlke 2013 1. ec2-run-instances ami-c37474b7 -g helloSg -k myKey -t t1.micro 2. ec2-describe-instances i-3e15f174 AWS command line tools Create and start a new Linux Server (an EC2 instance based on Amazon Linux) Introduction to Amazon Web Services | Christian Tschenett13. January 2013Slide 20

21. © Zühlke 2013 ssh -i myKey.pem ec2-user@$ec2-….amazonaws.com 1. sudo su - 2. yum -y install tomcat7 3. cd /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/ 4. wget http://sisetestbucket.….amazonaws.com/test.war 5. chown tomcat:tomcat test.war 6. cd /usr/share/tomcat7/conf/ 7. echo 'JAVA_OPTS="${JAVA_OPTS} -Ddbendpoint=helloworlddb.….amazonaws.com/helloworlddb -Ddbuser=masteruser -Ddbpassword=masterpw1234"' >> /usr/share/tomcat7/conf/tomcat7.conf 8. service tomcat7 start Linux Administration Install Tomcat and deploy web application Introduction to Amazon Web Services | Christian Tschenett Not AWS specific (standard Linux) 13. January 2013Slide 21

22. © Zühlke 2013 Introduction to Amazon Web Services Christian Tschenett Amazon Web Services Supporting concepts for Elastic Architectures 13. January 2013 Slide 22

23. © Zühlke 2013 Elastic Architecture Introduction to Amazon Web Services | Christian Tschenett Alarm(s) Amazon CloudWatch Elastic Load Balancer EC2 Instances Amazon RDS Auto scaling Group Down-/Up-Scale 13. January 2013Slide 23

24. © Zühlke 2013 1. elb-create-lb helloWorldWeb --availability-zones eu-west-1a,eu-west-1b --listener "protocol=http, lb-port=80, instance-port=8080" 2. elb-configure-healthcheck helloWorldWeb --target "HTTP:8080/test/index.html" --interval 60 --timeout 5 --unhealthy-threshold 5 --healthy-threshold 5 AWS command line tools Create a new Elastic Load Balancer Introduction to Amazon Web Services | Christian Tschenett13. January 2013Slide 24

25. © Zühlke 2013 1. as-create-launch-config helloWorldTomcat --image-id ami-c37474b7 --instance-type t1.micro --group helloSg --key myKey --user-data-file cloudinit_tomcat_demoapp.sh 2. as-create-auto-scaling-group helloWorldAutoScaling --launch-configuration helloWorldTomcat --max-size 2 --min-size 1 --availability-zones eu-west-1a,eu-west-1b --load-balancers helloWorldWeb AWS command line tools Create an Auto Scaling Group Introduction to Amazon Web Services | Christian Tschenett13. January 2013Slide 25

26. © Zühlke 2013 1. as-put-scaling-policy MyScaleUpPolicy --auto-scaling-group helloWorldAutoScaling --adjustment=1 --type ChangeInCapacity --cooldown 300 2. mon-put-metric-alarm MyHighLatencyAlarm --metric-name Latency --namespace "AWS/ELB" --dimensions "LoadBalancerName=helloWorldWeb" --comparison-operator GreaterThanThreshold --evaluation-periods 2 --period 60 --statistic Average --threshold 0.3 --alarm-actions arn:…/MyScaleUpPolicy AWS command line tools Setup Scaling Policies and Alarms Introduction to Amazon Web Services | Christian Tschenett13. January 2013Slide 26

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