There are several options for deployment, configuration management, and infrastructure management on AWS. These options include Puppet and Chef as configuration management systems, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS OpsWorks, and Ansible as deployment frameworks, and AWS CloudFormation for infrastructure management.

This chapter covers recipes for using open source DevOps tools such as Docker, Chef, and Puppet. Docker implements virtualization and runs both on virtual machines and bare metal. You can directly ship Docker containers to your cloud environments. Chef and Puppet help automate your server and application deployments. These tools treat infrastructure as code, and you can version and test your infrastructure just like any application. These tools will work both on-premise infrastructure and cloud platforms such as Amazon EC2 and OpenStack. In addition, you can use AWS CloudFormation with Chef and Puppet.