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Start Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation PracticeA team uses AWS CodeDeploy with a deployment configuration of CodeDeployDefault.OneAtATime to deploy a web application to an Auto Scaling group. Instances are behind an Application Load Balancer. The deployment fails with 'The overall deployment failed because too many individual instances failed deployment.' What is the most likely cause?
Explanation: The deployment fails because the health check grace period on the Auto Scaling group is too short. When CodeDeploy deploys one instance at a time (CodeDeployDefault.OneAtATime), the instance is taken out of service, updated, and then returned to the load balancer. If the grace period expires before the instance passes its health checks, the Auto Scaling group marks it as unhealthy and terminates it, causing the deployment to fail with 'too many individual instances failed.'
A development team uses AWS CloudFormation to deploy infrastructure. They want to update a stack but first need to review how the changes will impact existing resources before applying them. Which CloudFormation feature should they use?
Explanation: Change sets allow you to preview how proposed changes to a CloudFormation stack will affect your running resources before you apply them. They generate a summary of the changes (additions, modifications, deletions) based on the new template and parameters, enabling you to assess impact such as resource replacement or updates without executing the changes. This directly addresses the team's requirement to review changes before applying them.
A company uses AWS CodeDeploy to deploy a new version of an application to EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group behind an Application Load Balancer. The company requires zero downtime during the deployment. Which deployment configuration should be used?
Explanation: Option D is correct because a blue/green deployment with CodeDeploy, where new instances are launched and traffic is shifted only after validation, ensures zero downtime by keeping the old environment (blue) fully serving traffic until the new environment (green) is verified healthy. This approach avoids any in-place updates that could temporarily reduce capacity or cause service disruption, meeting the requirement for zero downtime during deployment.
A company uses AWS CloudFormation to deploy a three-tier web application. The SysOps administrator wants to update a critical parameter, such as the instance type, and ensure that the change is applied without recreating the EC2 instance, if possible. Which CloudFormation stack update feature should be used to achieve this?
Explanation: Change sets allow you to preview the changes that will be made to your stack resources before executing them. For an update that modifies an instance type, CloudFormation will attempt to perform an update without replacement if the resource supports it (e.g., AWS::EC2::Instance supports in-place updates for the InstanceType property). By using a change set, you can confirm that the update will not recreate the EC2 instance before applying it.
A company uses AWS CodeDeploy to deploy an application to an Auto Scaling group. The deployment strategy is set to CodeDeployDefault.HalfAtATime. The lifecycle hooks for the Auto Scaling group include a test hook that runs during instance launch. During a recent deployment, the deployment failed because the new instances failed the test hook and were not marked as healthy. The SysOps administrator needs to ensure that failed instances are automatically terminated and replaced with new ones from the Auto Scaling group. Which configuration change should the administrator make?
Explanation: Option A is correct because setting the Auto Scaling group's health check type to ELB (Elastic Load Balancer) ensures that the Auto Scaling group uses the ELB's health check status to determine instance health. When the test lifecycle hook fails, the new instances are not marked as healthy by the ELB, causing the Auto Scaling group to automatically terminate and replace them. This aligns with the requirement to automatically replace failed instances, as the default EC2 health check only considers instance status (e.g., running vs. stopped) and does not reflect application-level health.
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