AWS Infrastructure Automation and Security Prevention Using DevOps

Abstract

In day-to-day process lead by organizations while creating new infrastructures, needs to have same software configurations on all the servers to maintain their security and privacy policies. Manually doing this process leads to configuration errors and takes an ample amount of time to achieve the desired configurations. In this paper, we have proposed an automation process of converting Open Virtualization Application/Appliance (OVA) to Amazon machine image (AMI) to provide security (IP-based attacks and port scan attacks) and to maintain privacy by creating user-defined AMIs and to reduce time consumption in setup installation and configuration by creating AMIs from templates of existing infrastructure. The whole process is been orchestrated with the help of some DevOps tools. The tools used in this process are Jenkins, Terraform, Chef, and AWS EC2 instance. By this proposed method, all servers on AWS will have the desired same configuration using the template OVA including the security and privacy prospects.