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Scale EC2 Instances on a Schedule on AWS

In this lab, you’ll practice scheduling scaling actions on EC2 Auto Scaling groups. When you’re finished you’ll have a group of web servers that grows daily to handle traffic during a set time window and shrinks afterwards.

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Labs - Scale EC2 Instances on a Schedule on AWS

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Rating (18)
Level
Beginner
Duration
50m
Released
Oct 28, 2021

Lab author

Lab Author: Daniel Wilcox
Daniel Wilcox
Daniel is an infrastructure software engineer specializing in building and automating scalable, secure SaaS platforms. He focuses on building reliable distributed systems using techniques such as infrastructure-as-code, immutable systems, and client-side load balancing. As the principal platform engineer at Ripple, Daniel helped transform an enterprise Java application into a SaaS product. He built features for dynamic workloads such as automated blue-green deployments, version-based routing for... more micro-services, and automated certificate issuance and rotation. At Google, Daniel was an SRE and systems engineer for Google Cloud and Platforms. Daniel is an advisor for start-ups and investors. After 12 years in Silicon Valley, Daniel is now enjoying sunny London with his wife. Top Tools & Languages: AWS/GCE, Hashicorp products (Terraform, Vault, Consul, Nomad, Packer), Envoy service mesh, Salt Stack, Django, and Gitlab. Python, Go, and C.
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Challenge

Retrieve Domain Name of the Load Balancer

Your company’s website has a strong daily traffic pattern and wants to control costs. Your job is to constrain web server capacity to handle peak load to only the times when it will be used. Get the domain name of the load balancer for the auto-scaling group. Save it for use in subsequent steps.

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Schedule a One-Shot Update

Create a change to the Auto Scaling group capacity to be applied once in the future.

Challenge

Schedule a Daily Scale-Out Action

Create a daily action to increase the size of the Auto Scaling group.

Challenge

Schedule a Daily Scale-In Action

Create a daily action to shrink the size of the Auto Scaling group.

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On average, you retain 75% more of your learning if you get time for practice.

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