100 - Inventory and Patch Management

Introduction

In this lab you will apply the concepts of Infrastructure as Code and Operations as Code to the following activities:

• Deployment of Infrastructure
• Inventory Management
• Patch Management

Goals:

• Automated deployment of infrastructure
• Dynamic management of resources
• Automated patch management

Prerequisites:

• An AWS account that you are able to use for testing, that is not used for production or other purposes.
• An IAM user or role in your AWS account with full access to CloudFormation, EC2, VPC, IAM.

Costs

Steps:

• Intro
• Setup
• Deploy an Environment Using Infrastructure as Code
• Inventory Management using Operations as Code
• Patch Management
• Creating Maintenance Windows and Scheduling Automated Operations Activities
• Creating a Simple Notification Service Topic
• Removing Lab Resources