AWS Proton Cheat Sheet

• A managed delivery service for deploying container and serverless applications.

• Uses templates to define and maintain standard application stacks, which include the architecture, infrastructure resources, and the CI/CD pipeline.

Concepts

• Templates

  • Manage and provision resources using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

    • Environment Template – a shared infrastructure used by multiple applications or resources.

      • Standard Environment Template – AWS Proton provisions infrastructure for your environment.

      • Customer-managed Environment Template – provision your own shared resources.

    • Service Template – the infrastructure required in a particular environment to deploy and manage a single application or microservice.

  • Supports the following IaC providers:

    • AWS CloudFormation

    • Terraform

  • Template bundles

    • An IaC file with a manifest YAML file.

    • A schema YAML file for IaC file input parameter definitions.

  • Versioned templates

    • Minor version – backward compatibility is supported.

    • Major version – backward compatibility is not supported

    • Compatibility is determined solely based on the schema.

  • Template sync configurations

    • To allow AWS Proton sync from template bundles located in registered git repositories.

    • If it detects a template bundle change, it creates a new minor or major version of its template.

• Environments

  • It represents the set of shared resources and policies into which AWS Proton services are deployed.

  • Contains resources that will be shared across AWS Proton service instances.

    • VPC

    • Clusters

    • Load Balancers

    • API Gateways

  • Environment provisioning options:

    • AWS-managed provisioning

    • AWS-managed provisioning to another account

    • Self-managed provisioning

  • You can create an AWS Proton environment from one account and provision using environment account connections.

• Services

  • A service is an instantiation of a service template, including service instances and pipelines.

  • A service instance is a collection of AWS infrastructure resources used to run an application in an environment.

  • You can create a service template with or without a service pipeline.

  • When you build a service, you must create at least one service instance.

• Components

  • Allows you to define supplemental AWS infrastructure resources that a certain application may require in addition to those provided by the environment and the service instance.

  • Directly defined components enable you to define and provision additional infrastructure.

  • Components states:

    • Attached

      • Extends the infrastructure of a service instance.

      • It is associated with a service instance and an environment.

    • Detached 

      • Maintain component infrastructure between service instance attachments.

      • It is associated with an environment.

• Repositories

  • A repository link is a set of properties that can be used by AWS Proton when connecting to a repository.

  • Code Repository 

    • It is where you store the application code. 

    • Used for code deployment.

  • Template Repository

    • It is where you store template bundles.

    • Used for template sync.

    • You can also upload your templates to Amazon S3 and use the AWS Proton API to access them.

  • Infrastructure repository 

    • Host rendered infrastructure templates.

    • Used for self-managed provisioning of resource infrastructure.

  • Pipeline repository

    • Used to create pipelines.

    • Used for self-managed provisioning of pipelines.

AWS Proton Monitoring

• You can use EventBridge to receive notifications when the state of AWS Proton provisioning workflows changes.

• An event rule captures status changes for your AWS Proton service.

• Events are made up of rules that include an event pattern and targets.

  • Event pattern – each rule is expressed as an event pattern, which includes the source, type, and event targets.

  • Targets – create a target service to send notifications, collect state information, take corrective action, start events, or perform other tasks.

AWS Proton Pricing

• You are charged for AWS resources that you create to store and run your application.

AWS Proton Cheat Sheet References:

https://aws.amazon.com/proton/
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/proton/latest/userguide/Welcome.html