AWS OpsWorks Ansible recipes serve as chef “wrappers” for launching OpsWorks Ansible playbooks.

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Let’s examine AWS OpWorks Ansible’s specifics in more detail.

AWS OpsWorks Ansible

There are five Opsworks lifecycle events take place at various stages of instance buildout.

• Firstly, setup
• Then configure
• Then deploy
• undeploy
• Finally shutdown

If a remote instance is present, then each lifecycle event will execute a corresponding playbook in /home/ec2-user/ansible.

• setup.yml
• configure.yml
• deploy.yml
• undeploy.yml
• shutdown.yml

Additionally, to the Ansible playbooks, Opsworks provides both standard and customized json. The ‘ansible’ key in the custom json specification must use if we want to give custom json to the ansible templates.

Keep in mind that the custom json’s “environment” column is a necessary one.

{ 
ansible: {
environment: 'dev',
region: 'us-east-1',
foo: 'bar'
}
}

Instances will get a role that corresponds to the name of the layer where it creates.

What Distinguishes AWS OpsWorks From Ansible?

Ansible is a multi-node orchestration, task execution, and configuration management engine that is radically simple. Moreover, Ansible is a tool for IT automation. It can deploy software, set up systems, and handle more complex IT processes like rolling upgrades with no downtime or continuous deployments. Thus the main objectives of Ansible are simplicity and maximum usability.

To control the complete application, from load balancers to databases, AWS OpsWorks is the model. To install software packages and perform any scriptable task, we can either develop our own using Chef recipes or start from templates for popular technologies like Ruby, Node.JS, PHP, and Java. Our application can be automatically scaled based on load or time, and AWS OpsWorks can keep it healthy by identifying and replacing failed instances. The deployments and automation of every component are completely under our control.

Tools for “Server Configuration and Automation” include Ansible and AWS OpsWorks.

Features That Ansible Offers

1. Sysadmins, developers, and IT managers can complete automation projects in hours rather than weeks thanks to Ansible’s natural automation language.
2. Instead of requiring agents everywhere, it uses SSH by default. Reduce the number of open ports, strengthen security, stop “managing the management”, and regain CPU cycles.
3. Ansible automates cloud provisioning, workflow orchestration, configuration management, and app deployment all from a single platform.

Features That AWS OpsWorks Offers

1. We can model the various parts of our application as layers in a stack using AWS OpsWorks, which also converts our logical architecture into a physical architecture. All of the resources connected to our application, along with their status, are visible in one location.
2. We can effectively manage our applications over their lifetimes with the help of AWS OpsWorks, which offers an event-driven configuration system with rich deployment tools, including support for customizable deployments, rollback, partial deployments, patch management, automatic instance scaling, and auto healing.
3. Our entire environment can be defined as a set of template configurations using AWS OpsWorks in a format that we can update and version just like our application source code.

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Conclusion

In conclusion, our Support team described the AWS Ansible OpsWorks and the five OpsWorks lifecycle events. The main features of Ansible and AWS OpsWorks are also discussed.