Deploying an Application
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To deploy an application (WordPress) we might need to create and configure
- Networking components
- Storage components
- Database Components
- Compute Components
- Now lets assume you are company which sells wordpress and you need to deploy wordpress in your customers aws accounts
- This requires some kind of automation to save time.
- Lets understand different ways of creating resources in AWS.
- Console:
- Creating resources by browser based application called as AWS Console
- When to use: When you are creating resources where repetition is not expected.
- CLI:
- Creating resources by building Commands
- When to use: To create the resources multiple times
- CLI is good for repetition but if the configuration or options to the user are to be provided the scripting skills come to play.
- SDK
- Creating resources by writing code
- When to use: To create the resources from some application (dropbox)
- Template:
- Watch the classroom recording to understand the steps followed
- To create a reusable deployment of infra or infra-provisioning with configurable input parameters
- Console:
To Create cloudformation template what do we need
- We need to know the manual steps and possible inputs to be used
- To create a template we can use
- json
- yaml
- Refer Here for video tutorial on json and yaml
- To write the template we will be using visual studio code
