Step 3: Add a Back-end Data Store
Important
AWS OpsWorks Stacks is no longer accepting new customers. Existing customers will be able to use the OpsWorks console, API, CLI, and CloudFormation resources as normal until May 26, 2024, at which time they will be discontinued. To prepare for this transition, we recommend you transition your stacks to AWS Systems Manager as soon as possible. For more information, see AWS OpsWorks Stacks End of Life FAQs and Migrating your AWS OpsWorks Stacks applications to AWS Systems Manager Application Manager.
Step 2.1: Create a Stack - Chef 11 showed you how to create a stack that served a PHP application. However, that was a very simple application that did little more than display some static text. Production applications commonly use a back-end data store, yielding a stack configuration something like the illustration that follows.
This section shows how to extend MyStack to include a back-end MySQL database server. You need to do more than just add a MySQL server to the stack, though. You also have to configure the app to communicate properly with the database server. AWS OpsWorks Stacks doesn't do this for you; you will need to implement some custom recipes to handle that task.
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