Ask HN: I'm a Rails dev who wants to learn to comfortably deploy apps to AWS

Hi, I'm a new Rails developer, who came from an iOS background. I have a couple of test Rails applications that I deployed on Heroku and AWS using Elastic Beanstalk.

However, I want to learn more, and go deeper into the world of sysadmin/devops, and learn how to deploy Rails apps directly to EC2, and set up all the configuration myself, instead of Elastic Beanstalk abstracting it away from me.

I've heard about configuration management tools like Chef etc.. but my UNIX and Linux skills are almost non-existent, so I'm wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction, on what to begin learning first, and any resources you found useful.. thanks!

Have you considered digging deeper into Elastic Beanstalk? There's a deeper level of understanding than what the AWS Management console provides.

that's a good suggestion.. will look into it. am just worried that it won't give me a deep enough understanding/customisation compared to Opsworks..