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Operating in the cloud simplifies the problems associated with configuring and managing a large fleet of servers, which has grown beyond what manual procedures can handle. This is going to be the theme of discussion for this chapter, where we will discuss strategies to operate your cloud workloads with reliability and confidence. Towards the end, we will also get our hands dirty with some interesting tools to deploy resources on AWS.
We will cover the following topics:
- Pets versus cattle – an analogy
- Mutable and immutable infrastructure
- Getting started with your AWS account
- Understanding the test application and development toolbox
- Building an AMI and deploying a test instance
Let’s begin with an analogy that fits our topic of discussion well.