Effective DevOps with AWS - Second Edition

Monitoring

As you probably know by now, monitoring and measuring everything is an important aspect of a DevOps-driven organization. On the internet, you will find a number of well written blog posts and examples of how to efficiently monitor CloudFormation and Ansible. When working on monitoring CloudFormation, you will want to subscribe to an SNS topic for your stack creation to receive all events relating to your stack life cycle. It is also important to look out for CloudFormation stack creation failure. Ansible has a system of callbacks that will also give you a way to create some automation around the Ansible execution. Similarly to CloudFormation, receiving notifications when Ansible fails to run is important (it's even more important ...