Understanding our CloudFormation Template
AWS Cloud Services
In order to understand the resources we deploy with our CloudFormation template, you should get familiar with the following AWS Cloud Services and basic concepts. This will enable you to maintain the ZebClient cluster after deployment.
IAM – Identity and access management
VPC, Subnets, and security groups
EC2 instance
Region – Geographical location for EC2 instances
EBS – Elastic Block Storage
S3 - Storage
AWS Resources
During the ZebClient deployment, the following resources are created:
IAM User and Policy: ZebClient uses an IAM user and associated Account to access the S3 buckets created as part of the process. The policy allows the IAM user to manage S3 buckets within the AWS Account used for installation
VPC and Subnet: We create a new VPC and a new subnet using where the EC2 instances will sit. This VPC will include a security group that permits access to all servers in the group and SSH access to the public IP address provided in the installation process
EC2 Instances: We create application and acceleration nodes. The application nodes will include a mount point to the ZebClient parallel file system. Naming will be based on the Stack name given in the CloudFormation template
S3 Buckets: We will create an S3 bucket for each of the servers in the installation. This is where the Cold Layer data resides
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