Deploying to Amazon Web Services
After deploying our WordPress infrastructure into Microsoft Azure, we are now ready to explore how to deploy the same infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (AWS). However, while the high-level design of the infrastructure remains the same, there are some key differences between Azure and AWS that will require us to approach the deployment differently.
In Chapter 4, Deploying to Microsoft Azure, we focused on using Terraform to deploy to Azure. In this chapter, we will be diving deeper into Ansible, another popular infrastructure-as-code tool, to deploy our workload to AWS. Ansible allows us to define the desired state of our infrastructure in a declarative manner and manage the configuration and orchestration of our AWS resources.
By the end of this chapter, you will have a good understanding of how to use Ansible and Terraform to deploy a WordPress workload on AWS. You will also be familiar with the key differences between Azure and AWS and how...
