Currently, your deployment process consists of setting your load balancer to point to a maintenance page, turning off ea web application servers, deploying your code, turning the web application servers back on, and removing the maintenance page. Working with your…
An online company uses Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling extensively to provide an excellent customer experience while minimizing the number of running EC2 instances. The company’s self-hosted Puppet environment in the application layer manages the configuration of the instances. The IT…
Your DevOps team is responsible for a multi-tier, Windows-based web application consisting of web servers, Amazon RDS database instances, and a load balancer behind Amazon Route53. You have been asked by your manager to build a costeffective rolling deployment solution…
A company is developing a web application’s infrastructure using AWS CloudFormation. The database engineering team maintains the database resources in a CloudFormation template, and the software development team maintains the web application resources in a separate CloudFormation template. As the…
A company wants to migrate its content sharing web application hosted on Amazon EC2 to a serverless architecture. The company currently deploys changes to its application by creating a new Auto Scaling group of EC2 instances and a new Elastic…
Your company needs to automate 3 layers of a large cloud deployment. You want to be able to track this deployment’s evolution as it changes over time, and carefully control any alterations. What is a good way to automate a…
A DevOps Engineer is developing a deployment strategy that will allow for data-driven decisions before a feature is fully approved for general availability. The current deployment process uses AWS CloudFormation and blue/green-style deployments. The development team has decided that customers…
A DevOps Engineer at a startup cloud-based gaming company has the task of formalizing deployment strategies. The strategies must meet the following requirements: Use standard Git commands, such as git clone and git push for the code repository. Management tools…
A company uses a series of individual Amazon CloudFormation templates to deploy its multi-Region applications. These templates must be deployed in a specific order. The company is making more changes to the templates than previously expected and wants to deploy…
After a recent audit, a company decided to implement a new disaster recovery strategy for its Amazon S3 data and its MySQL database running on Amazon EC2. Management wants the ability to recover to a secondary AWS Region with an…