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Re: AWS CodeDeploy

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How about an Amazon-managed Docker (not shit ElasticBeanstalk) infrastructure/config management system? If they handled things like EBS integration, orchestration, ELB integration, and all of the usual stuff, I'd be sold in a second.

From my understanding, after talking to them at Web Summit, something like this is in the works. And they're aware of how incredibly complicated the AWS console is becoming. I don't know how or when they plan to address it, however.

They promise lots of things (like cross region VPC peering) to person to person at Summits...

Re: AWS CodeDeploy

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While this looks nice, part of me can't help but be annoyed by yet another deployment option on AWS. We now have CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk (which can take many forms, including Docker), CodeDeploy, and Opsworks. I can imagine how, for a new user, it's utterly baffling which of these options is the best for the longterm, with the least friction. I use OpsWorks quite a bit but have found it very challenging, an…

> I use OpsWorks quite a bit but have found it very challenging, and the feedback cycle when attempting to develop new cookbooks is excruciatingly slow. Yes. As a frequent Chef user, I was really excited about OpsWorks, but it feels quite beta, and as you said the build/test cycle is even worse than usual for config management. Have you had any success developing your Chef scripts on Vagrant and then using them on Op…

I used this development flow regularly. You had to account for opsworks nodes settings not to be there. There's discussion where I currently work that there really should be a plugin to simulate metadata and perhaps the same or another to simulate opsworks.

Re: AWS CodeDeploy

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As a beginner I have a hard time understanding all these services that Amazon provides. I know I should probably be using them, but I don't know which one.

Re: AWS CodeDeploy

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While this looks nice, part of me can't help but be annoyed by yet another deployment option on AWS. We now have CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk (which can take many forms, including Docker), CodeDeploy, and Opsworks. I can imagine how, for a new user, it's utterly baffling which of these options is the best for the longterm, with the least friction. I use OpsWorks quite a bit but have found it very challenging, an…

also check out http://cloudnative.io

instead of using rolling updates, it's a blue-green deploy -- essentially what netflix does. it also automates ami building, triggered by a jenkins plugin after a successful test run.

Re: AWS CodeDeploy

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While this looks nice, part of me can't help but be annoyed by yet another deployment option on AWS. We now have CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk (which can take many forms, including Docker), CodeDeploy, and Opsworks. I can imagine how, for a new user, it's utterly baffling which of these options is the best for the longterm, with the least friction. I use OpsWorks quite a bit but have found it very challenging, an…

How about an Amazon-managed Docker (not shit ElasticBeanstalk) infrastructure/config management system? If they handled things like EBS integration, orchestration, ELB integration, and all of the usual stuff, I'd be sold in a second.

It takes a couple of days to get Ansible playbooks set up to deploy CoreOS VMs onto EC2 with a decent Docker setup and EBS. I know, I've just done it. And I don't like Ansible, and haven't used it seriously before (I use it for project because it's on a contract and it's easy-ish for them to find people who understands Ansible if/when it's needed) so it took longer than I'd have liked.

Frankly, I don't understand why people are so happy to lock themselves tighter into AWS.

Re: AWS CodeDeploy

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post #42
post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From my understanding, after talking to them at Web Summit, something like this is in the works. And they're aware of how incredibly complicated the AWS console is becoming. I don't know how or when they plan to address it, however.

They promise lots of things (like cross region VPC peering) to person to person at Summits...

Yes, I am still waiting for something prettier than software VPN or OpenS/WAN. Their docs show 5 ways to connect VPCs, all of them complex, all of them with significant downsides. One would think this sort of thing would be easier.

Re: AWS CodeDeploy

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As a beginner I have a hard time understanding all these services that Amazon provides. I know I should probably be using them, but I don't know which one.

What is it you're trying to do? It might be worth taking a look at the storage provided by S3 and how you'd go about hosting a static website (if that's something you might need). Or set up a free micro EC2 instance. That will give you a linux box which you can play around with.

Re: AWS CodeDeploy

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I really think Heroku nailed the deployment model. I just push my code, and then the code is deployed. It would be nice to have staging baked in.

Re: AWS CodeDeploy

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While this looks nice, part of me can't help but be annoyed by yet another deployment option on AWS. We now have CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk (which can take many forms, including Docker), CodeDeploy, and Opsworks. I can imagine how, for a new user, it's utterly baffling which of these options is the best for the longterm, with the least friction. I use OpsWorks quite a bit but have found it very challenging, an…

Wow STRML - thats exactly how i felt and why i created CloudCoreo.com... you are literally describing what we do (plus we handle services other than ec2 as well). it's not technically open to the public until January, but after seeing what you want i would love your feedback on the system. Let me know if you are interested and i can walk you through how it works.
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