Managing applications using AWS OpsWorks

AWS OpsWorks is a comprehensive AWS EC2 and application deployment framework, which is based on Chef (http://chef.io/). It is easy to associate the Chef recipe and EC2 instance using the OpsWorks UI.

Getting ready

In order to upload and maintain your Chef recipes, it is recommended that you prepare a GitHub (http://github.com) account. After creating an account on GitHub, create a repository my-opsworks-recipes for OpsWorks recipes.

Just so you know, a free user on GitHub can only create a public repository.

Getting ready

Creating Git repository

After creating the my-opsworks-recipes repository, you can access the Git repository ...

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