AWS OpsWorks¶

• [[Chef]] & [[Puppet]] help you perform [[server configuration]] automatically or repetitive actions
• They work great with AWS EC2 & [[On Premise VM]]
• AWS Opsworks = Managed [[Chef]] & [[Puppet]]
• It's an alternative to SSM Parameter Store

Quick word on Chef / Puppet¶

• They help with managing configuration as code
• Helps in having [[consistent deployments]]
• Works with [[Linux]] / [[Windows]]
• Can automate: user accounts, [[CRON]], [[NTP]], packages, services...
• The leverage "Recipes" or "Manifests"
• [[Chef]] / [[Puppet]] have similarities with SSM Parameter Store / Elastic Beanstalk / CloudFormation but they're open-source tools that work cross-cloud