Step 3: Add a Back-end Data Store

Important

The AWS OpsWorks Stacks service reached end of life on May 26, 2024 and has been disabled for both new and existing customers. We strongly recommend customers migrate their workloads to other solutions as soon as possible. If you have questions about migration, reach out to the AWS Support Team on AWS re:Post or through AWS Premium Support.

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.

Topics

• Step 3.1: Add a Back-end Database
• Step 3.2: Update SimplePHPApp
• A Short Digression: Cookbooks, Recipes, and AWS OpsWorks Stacks Attributes
• Step 3.3: Add the Custom Cookbooks to MyStack
• Step 3.4: Run the Recipes
• Step 3.5: Deploy SimplePHPApp, Version 2
• Step 3.6: Run SimplePHPApp