Q5 — AWS SOA-C02 Ch.1

Question 5 of 100 | ← Chapter 1

A company must migrate its applications to AWS. The company is using Chef recipes for configuration management. The company wants to continue to use the existing Chef recipes after the applications are migrated to AWS. What is the MOST operationally efficient solution that meets these requirements?

• A. Use AWS CloudFormation to create an Amazon EC2 instance, install a Chef server, and add Chef recipes.
• B. Use AWS CloudFormation to create a stack and add layers for Chef recipes.
• C. Use AWS Elastic Beanstalk with the Docker platform to upload Chef recipes.
• D. Use AWS OpsWorks to create a stack and add layers with Chef recipes. ✓

Correct Answer: D. Use AWS OpsWorks to create a stack and add layers with Chef recipes.

Explanation

考虑到公司希望在将应用程序迁移到AWS后继续使用现有的Chef食谱，我们需要找到一个解决方案，既能满足继续使用Chef进行配置管理的需求，又能确保在AWS环境中的操作效率。AWS OpsWorks（这里应理解为AWS OpsWorks for Chef，实际产品名为AWS OpsWorks已不存在，更贴近的可能是AWS CloudFormation或AWS OpsWorks相关的自动化工具，但根据题意，我们理解为一个能够支持Chef食谱在AWS上高效运行的工具）能够创建堆栈并添加带有Chef食谱的层次。这样，公司可以在AWS环境中以高效的方式继续使用其现有的Chef食谱进行配置管理，满足题目中的要求。其他选项如A、B、C，要么涉及手动安装Chef服务器（选项A），要么不是专为Chef食谱设计的管理工具（选项B的AWS CloudFormation和选项C的AWS Elastic Beanstalk），因此不是最高效的解决方案。