Ask HN: What tools are you using to manage large scale AWS instances/services
WHat do you use to manage tens, hundreds or thousands of instances on AWS?
What do you think is your most important tools for doing this?
What do you think is your most important tools for doing this?
we used Scalarium from Peritor, which is now AWS OpsWorks, and this worked very well for us.
You basically create CHEF-scripts to define type of servers and group different types of servers to clouds (e.g. web server, DB server, load balancer, monitoring server, app server, memcached server etc.).
Once this is done you can easily start/stop instances either manually or automatically triggered by an event (time-/load-based).
We managed 500+ servers with this solution.
If you don't like AWS OpsWorks, you can still use Chef or any of the other IT-Automation-Tools (puppet, vagrant, ...)
Best Thorsten