AWS OpsWorks Documentation

AWS OpsWorks is a configuration management service that provides managed instances of Chef and Puppet. Chef and Puppet are automation platforms that allow you to use code to automate the configurations of your servers. AWS OpsWorks lets you use Chef and Puppet to help you automate how servers are configured, deployed, and managed across your Amazon EC2 instances or on-premises compute environments. AWS OpsWorks has three offerings, Opsworks for Chef Automate, OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise, and OpsWorks Stacks.

AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate is a fully managed configuration management service that hosts Chef Automate, a suite of automation tools from Chef, for configuration management, compliance and security, and continuous deployment. AWS OpsWorks also maintains your Chef server by patching, updating, and backing up your server. AWS OpsWorks gives you access to all of the Chef Automate features, such as configuration and compliance management, which you manage through the Chef console or command line tools like Knife. It also works seamlessly with your existing Chef cookbooks.

AWS OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise is a fully managed configuration management service that hosts Puppet Enterprise, a set of automation tools from Puppet, for infrastructure and application management. AWS OpsWorks also maintains your Puppet master server by patching, updating, and backing up your server. AWS OpsWorks gives you access to all of the Puppet Enterprise features, which you manage through the Puppet console. It also works seamlessly with your existing Puppet code.

AWS OpsWorks Stacks is an application and server management service. With OpsWorks Stacks, you can model your application as a stack containing different layers, such as load balancing, database, and application server. Within each layer, you can provision Amazon EC2 instances, enable scaling, and configure your instances with Chef recipes using Chef Solo. This allows you to manage tasks such as installing packages and programming languages or frameworks, configuring software, and more.

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