Short Presentation about Amazon Elastic Beanstalk from WJAX 2012

1. Amazon Elastic Beanstalk
Eberhard Wolff
Architecture & Technology Manager
adesso AG

2. History & Origin

3. History & Origin
• Amazon: cloud pioneer
• Original offerings
– EC2 Elastic Computer Cloud
– S3 Simple Storage Service
• Many other offerings
– E.g. (relational) databases, Map / Reduce
…
• Foundation for many other services

4. Other Amazon Services
• Elastic Load Balancer
• Auto Scaling (starts new EC2 instances)
• EBS: Elastic Block Storage (virtual
harddisks)

5. Elastic Beanstalk in a Nutshell
• EC2 Server Elastic Load Balancer
Auto Scaling
• +Linux
• +OpenJDK EC2 Server EC2 Server
• +Tomcat Linux
OpenJDK
Linux
OpenJDK
...
• Scaling Elastic Tomcat Tomcat
Load Balancer /
Auto Scaling
• Deploy artefacts WAR
on S3 S3

6. Programming Model
• OpenJDK + Tomcat
• Standard Java Programming Model
• Also supported: Python, PHP
(Linux), .NET (Windows Server
2008R2)

7. Scaling / High Availability
• Servers automatically started (Auto
Scaling)
• Failed servers will be restarted
• Servers can run in several data centers

8. Tools

9. Web Console
• Web UI
• Wizard to create new application
• + environment to run the application on

19. Some tricks...
• Easy to create a new environment
• E.g. for testing, staging
• URLs can be swapped
– deploy new version on new environment
– switch URLs
– zero downtime

20. More tools
• All web console action also possible
using SOAP Web Services
• Eclipse Plug In
– Manage all AWS resources (EC2, S3…)
– Manage Elastic Beanstalk server just like
local servers

21. Eclipse Plug In

22. Flexibility

23. Flexibility
• Tuning possible
– E.g. JVM parameters
– Load balancer configuration
– Can even use your own system images
– i.e. can add software, fine tune …
• Can log into running servers
• Session handling can be tuned
• Can use EC2 if Elastic Beanstalk is not
flexible enough

24. New: Configuration Files
• Part of the deployable artefact
• declaratively install packages & libraries
• configure software components
• run commands
• set environment variables
• create users & groups

25. Platform and other Services

26. Plattform
• Amazon Web Services
• Proven foundation
• Used for many other cloud plattforms
• …and by many users
• Includes monitoring
• No additional charges to EC2 / S3
• Free tier (750 h/month for one year)
available

27. Other Services
• Amazon Relational Database Service
– Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL Server
– Integration in Elastic Beanstalk possible
• Diverse NoSQL solutions (e.g.
DynamoDB, SimpleDB)
• Lots of AWS services (Map/Reduce,
Caches etc)
• Other services provided by 3rd parties

28. Amazon Elastic Beanstalk:
Highlights
• Proven foundation
• Standard Java stack (Tomcat +
OpenJDK)
• World wide availability (incl. Europe)
• Lots of additional services