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Amazon Elastic Beanstalk
Eberhard Wolff
Freelance Consultant/ Trainer
Head Technology Advisory Board
adesso AG

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HISTORY & ORIGIN
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History & Origin
! Amazon: cloud pioneer
! Original offerings
! EC2 Elastic Compute Cloud
! S3 Simple Storage Service
! Many other offerings
! E.g. databases, Map / Reduce …
! Foundation for many other services
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Other Amazon Services
! Elastic Load Balancer
! Auto Scaling
starts new EC2 instances
! EBS: Elastic Block Storage
virtual hard disks
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Elastic Beanstalk in a
Nutshell
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Elastic Beanstalk in a
Nutshell
! EC2 Server
Elastic Load Balancer
! +Linux
Auto Scaling
! +OpenJDK
! +Tomcat
EC2 Server
EC2 Server
Linux
Linux
! Scaling Elastic
...
OpenJDK
OpenJDK
Load Balancer /
Tomcat
Tomcat
Auto Scaling
! Deploy artefacts
on S3
WAR
! Can add database
S3
(RDS)
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Programming Model
! OpenJDK + Tomcat
! Standard Java Programming Model
! Also supported: Python, PHP, Ruby,
Node.js (Linux), .NET (Windows
Server 2008R2)
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Scaling / High Availability
! Servers automatically started
! Auto Scaling
! Failed servers will be restarted
! Servers can run in several data
centers
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TOOLS
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Web Console
! Web UI
! Wizard to create new application
! + environment to run the application
on
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DEMO: NEWS APPLICATION
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News Application
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News Application
Originally by
Bernhard
Löwenstein
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News Application
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(✔)
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News Application
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Spring
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News Application
Next slide
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Code Changes
Took the Spring application
Converted to MySQL
<bean class="java.net.URI" id="dbUrl">
<constructor-arg
value="#{systemEnvironment['JDBC_CONNECTION_STRING']}" />
</bean>
<bean id="dataSource"
class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource">
<property name="url"
value="#{ 'jdbc:mysql://' + @dbUrl.getHost() + "
':' + @dbUrl.getPort() + @dbUrl.getPath() }" />
<property name="username"
value="#{ @dbUrl.getUserInfo().split(':')[0] }" />
<property name="password"
value="#{ @dbUrl.getUserInfo().split(':')[1] }" />
</bean>
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Some tricks...
! Easy to create a new environment
! E.g. for testing, staging
! URLs can be swapped
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Some tricks...
! Deploy new version on new
environment
! Switch URLs with production
! Zero downtime
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More tools
! All web console action also possible
using SOAP Web Services
! Command Line tools
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Eclipse Plug In
! Manage all AWS resources (EC2,
S3…)
! Manage Elastic Beanstalk server just
like local servers
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Eclipse Plug In
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FLEXIBILITY
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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
! Use EC2 if Elastic Beanstalk not flexible
enough
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Configuration Files
! Part of the deployable artifact
! Declaratively install packages &
libraries
! Configure software components
! Run commands
! Set environment variables
! Create users & groups
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PLATFORM AND OTHER
SERVICES
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Platform
! 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
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Other Services
! Amazon Relational Database Service
! Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL Server
! Diverse NoSQL solutions
(e.g. DynamoDB, SimpleDB)
! Lots of AWS services (Map/Reduce,
Caches, Search etc)
! Other services provided by 3rd parties
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Amazon Elastic Beanstalk:
Highlights
! Proven foundation
! Standard Java stack (Tomcat +
OpenJDK)
! World wide availability (incl.
Europe)
! Lots of additional services
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