Chapter 18: Autoscaling and Lifecycle Hooks
One of the critical features of automation is taking advantage of autoscaling. Although many use this Amazon Web Services (AWS) service in its essential capacity, the educated Development Operations (DevOps) professional understands and takes advantage of some of the more advanced capabilities that Auto Scaling can provide. Insight into these components will not only help you pass the certification exam but will also allow you to manage your AWS environment more effectively.
In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:
- Understanding AWS Auto Scaling
- Deploying Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances with Auto Scaling
- The Auto Scaling lifecycle
- Using Auto Scaling lifecycle hooks