Welcome. This tutorial will walk you through the key concepts behind Cloudsoft AMP, using the Maeztro subsystem so we can very quickly get a working application blueprint and learn how AMP provides a structured approach to management. You will first see a sample application, using both cloud VMs and services, deployed with Terraform. The application has a few bugs that impact operations, so we will use Maeztro to collect information on the problems and then resolve them operationally.
The tutorial will take about an hour, and the techniques you will learn will apply to any Terraform deployments where you want to simplify and blueprint operations.
This tutorial assumes that:
- You have access to a running AMP with Maeztro, such as in a Docker container, Kubernetes, or hosted
- You have AWS credentials -- an access key and secret key or session token -- with permissions to provision EC2 resources, use DynamoDB, and view CloudWatch metrics
- You can run
gitandterraformon the CLI
In section 1, the tutorial will first deploy a simple application using Terraform.
In section 2, we will import the applications into Maeztro and group the Terraform resources to reflect the application's topology the make the resources easier to work with.
In section 3, sensors will be defined to collect useful information to explore an issue.
In section 4, effectors will be written to perform operations to resolve the issue.
In section 5, we will write policies to resolve the issue automatically as soon as it starts to impact performance.
Each section should take between 5 and 15 minutes.
Get started with section 1 -- deploying the app with Terraform.