You're reading from AWS for System Administrators Build, automate, and manage your infrastructure on the most popular cloud platform – AWS

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800201538

Length 388 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

System Administration

Author (1):

Prashant Lakhera

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: AWS Services and Tools

2. Chapter 1: Setting Up the AWS Environment FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Protecting Your AWS Account Using IAM

4. Section 2: Building the Infrastructure

5. Chapter 3: Creating a Data Center in the Cloud Using VPC

6. Chapter 4: Scalable Compute Capacity in the Cloud via EC2

7. Section 3: Adding Scalability and Elasticity to the Infrastructure

8. Chapter 5: Increasing an Application's Fault Tolerance with Elastic Load Balancing

9. Chapter 6: Increasing Application Performance Using AWS Auto Scaling

10. Chapter 7: Creating a Relational Database in the Cloud using AWS Relational Database Service (RDS)

11. Section 4: The Monitoring, Metrics, and Backup Layers

12. Chapter 8: Monitoring AWS Services Using CloudWatch and SNS

13. Chapter 9: Centralizing Logs for Analysis

14. Chapter 10: Centralizing Cloud Backup Solution

15. Chapter 11: AWS Disaster Recovery Solutions

16. Chapter 12: AWS Tips and Tricks

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Automating AMI creation

AMI contains information that is required to launch an instance. It consists of information such as the operating system image, the different software installed in it, and configuration information. It's important to regularly update the AMI to contain information such as operating system patches, updated software, and the latest config changes. To create an AMI, we can follow any of these three procedures:

Creating an AMI using the AWS console
Creating an AMI using the AWS CLI
Automating AMI creation using Packer

Let's discuss these procedures in detail in the following sections.

Creating an AMI using the AWS console

The steps to create an AMI using the AWS console are listed as follows:

Go to the EC2 console at https://us-west-2.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/v2/home. Select the instance (in this case, prod-server), and under Actions, click on Image and templates and then click on Create image, as illustrated in the...