EC2 instance Autoscaling

In this Lab you will get the idea of the following:

• Created an Amazon EC2 launch template

• Created an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling launch configuration

• Configured scaling policies and created auto Scaling group to scale in and scale out the number of servers based on variable load

You need to first create these for this lab:

• VPC with subnet 10.0.0.0/16

  • For Availability Zone 1

    • public subnet: 10.0.0.0/24

    • private subnet: 10.0.1.0/24

  • For Availability Zone 2

    • public subnet: 10.0.2.0/24

    • private subnet: 10.0.3.0/24

• Security Group

  • Inbound rule: HTTP and SSH

[ Visit my previous blogs for Creating VPC and Security group if you had problem ]

Let's begin:

1. In EC2 -> Load Balancing session select Load Balancers and Create load balancer Select Application load balancer

• Basic configuration

  • Load balancer name: WebELB

  • Select VPC: myVPC

  • Mappings: Select at least two AG so select both public subnets of different AG

• Security groups

  • Security group: Select that you created to access HTTP

• Listener and routing

  • Protocol: HTTP Port: 80

  • Create target group as:

    • Target group name: web-app

    • VPC: myVPC

      Next

    • Register the targets session leave it as default and

      Create target group

-Go back to the load balancer tab, refresh, and select the target group that you created

1. Creating a launch template

• In the EC2 left bar there is an instances section in which Launch Templates also select and create launch templates as:

  • Launch template name: webtemp

  • Template version description: For autoscaling use

  • Select Provide guidance to help me set up a template that I can use with EC2 Auto Scaling

  • Application and OS Images: select My AMIs and leave the default option

  • Instance type: t3.micro or other free tiers if exits

  • Key pait(login)-> Key pair name: don't include in the launch template

  • Network Settings-> Subnet: Don't include in launch template Firewall(security group): Select the existing security group and select that you created for HTTP access

  • Leave all defaults and Create launch template

1. Creating an Auto Scaling group

• Choose the Launch template that we created and From Action dropdown select Create Auto Scaling group

  • Name ->

    • Auto Scaling group name: Web Auto Scaling Group

    • All Default and Next

  • Network ->

    • VPC: myVPC

    • Availability Zones and subnets: Select both private subnets

    • Choose Next

  • Load balancing ->

    • Select Attach to an existing load balancer

      • Existing load balancer target groups: Select web-app that you created

    • Health checks:- Select Turn on Elastic Load Balancing health checks

    • Choose Next

  • Configure group Size and scaling policies - optional

    • -> Group size - optional

      • Desired capacity: 2

      • Minimum capacity: 2

      • Maximum capacity: 4

    • -> Scaling policies - optional

      • Select Target tracking scaling policy

        • Metric type: choose Average CPU utilization

        • Target value: 50

        • Choose Next

  • Add notifications - optional

    • Choose Next

  • Add tags - optional

    • Choose Add tag Key: Name Value-optional: WebApp

  • Review and Create Auto Scaling group

1. Verify autoscaling

• Select instances and you see there are 2 WebApp named instances are automatically created

• Select Target Groups and select that you created above and observe health status -> healthy

1. Test auto-scaling configuration

• When the Load of CPU utilization reaches 50%+ after a few minutes you should see your auto-scaling group add a new instance. This occurs because Amazon CloudWatch detected that the average CPU utilization of your Auto Scaling group exceeds 50% and your scale-up policy has been invoked in response. The maximum of 4 instances of name WebApp created according to policy. You can add more if needed.

Have a great day!!!