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Application maintenance

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Application maintenance - AMS Advanced Application Developer's Guide

Once infrastructure is deployed, updating it in a consistent way across all your AMS environments, from QA to staging to production, is the challenge.

This section provides an overview of the AMS workload ingestion process and some examples of different methods you can use to keep your cloud infrastructure layer up to date.

Application maintenance strategies

How you deploy your applications impacts how you maintain them. This section provides some strategies for application maintenance.

Environment updates can involve any of these changes:

  • Security updates

  • New versions of your applications

  • Application configuration changes

  • Updates to dependencies

Note

For any application deployment, no matter the method, always file a service request beforehand to let AMS know that you are going to deploy an application.

Immutable vs Mutable Application Installation Examples
Compute Instance Mutability App Install Method AMI

Mutable

With CodeDeploy

AMS-provided

Manually

With a Chef or Puppet, Pull-Based

With Ansible or Salt, Push-Based

Immutable

With a Golden AMI

Custom (based on AMS-provided)

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