Introduction

Opsworks

Opsworks Instances type

Custom JSON

Life cycle

Docker Compose

Chef recipes

Hands ON

1. Resources creation
   1. Opsworks Stack
      1. Log into your AWS account
      2. Go to Services -> Management Tools -> Opsworks
      3. Click on Add stack (if you already have stacks on Opsworks) or Add your first stack (if it's the first time you are creating stacks on opsworks)
      4. Select type Chef 12 stack Note: The Chef cookbook used in this example only supports Chef12
      5. Fill out stack information Note: - You can use any name as stack name - Make sure VPC selected are properly configured - This solution supports Amazon Linux and Ubuntu - Repository URL https://bitbucket.org/tnache/opsworks-recipes.git
      6. Click on advanced if you want to change something. Changing "Use OpsWorks security groups" to No can be a good idea when you need to communicate with instances which are running outside of Opsworks
      7. Click on "Add stack"
   2. Opsworks layer
      1. Click on "Add a layer"
      2. Set Name, Short name and Security groups. I will use webserver
      Note: Use a simple name because we will use this name in next steps The Name web is reserved for AWS internal use
      1. Click on "Add layer"
      
   3. Opsworks Instance
      1. Click on "Instances" on left painel
      2. Click on "Add an instance"
      3. Select the size (instance type)
      4. Select the subnet
      5. Click on "Add instance"
      
2. Resources configuration
   1. Opsworks stack
      1. Click on "Stack" on left painel
      2. Click on "Stack Settings"
      3. Click on "Edit"
      4. Find Custom JSON field and paste the content of the file bellow
      custom_json_1
      1. Click on "Save"
   2. Opsworks layer
      1. Click on "Layers" on left painel
      2. Click on "Recipes"
      3. Hit docker-compose and press enter on Setup
      4. Hit docker-compose::deploy and press enter on Deploy
      5. Hit docker-compose::stop and press enter on Deploy
      6. Click on "Save"
      
3. Start
   1. Start instance
      1. Click on start
      
4. Tests Note: Wait until instance get online state
   1. Open your browser and you should be able to see It works!
   2. Checking running containers
   
5. Management
   1. Change custom json to file bellow (See resources configuration=>Opsworks stack)
   custom_json_2
   1. Click on "Deployments" on left painel
   2. Click on "Run Command"
   3. Select "Execute Recipes" as "Command"
   4. Hit "docker-compose::deploy" as "Recipes to execute"
   5. Click on "Execute Recipes"
   Note: Wait until deployment finish
   1. Checking running containers