Practice
After watching Plan, the player prepares for Practice
- In the Practice interface
- Read step 1 of Highly Available Web Applications
- Read CONCEPT
- Select START LAB
- Select the arrow to the right to see the next steps

- In the Practice interface
- Read step 2 of Highly Available Web Applications
- Read CONCEPT
- Select Open AWS Console
- Select the arrow to the right to see the next steps

- In the AWS Console interface

- In the Practice interface
- Read step 3 of highly Available Web Applications
- Read CONCEPT
- Select the arrow to the right to see the next steps

- In the EC2 interface
- Select Auto Scaling Groups
- Select TravelAgencuWebServers
- View details of Desired capacity, Minimum capacity, Maximum capacity

- In the Pracitce interface
- Read step 4 of highly Available Web Applications
- Read CONCEPT
- Select the arrow to the right to see the next steps

- In the Auto Scaling groups interface
- Select Instance management
- View instances

- In the Practice interface
- Read step 5 of highly Available Web Applications
- Read CONCEPT
- Select the arrow to the right to see the next steps

- In the Auto Scaling groups interface

- In the Practice interface
- Read step 6 of highly Available Web Applications
- Read CONCEPT
- Select the arrow to the right to see the next steps

- In the Auto Scaling groups interface
- In Network, see Subnet ID
- In Load balancing, select Edit

- In the Practice interface
- Read step 7 of highly Available Web Applications
- Read CONCEPT
- Select the arrow to the right to see the next steps

- In the Edit TravleAgencyWebServers interface
- Select Add a new load balancer

- In the Practice interface
- Read step 8 of Highly Available Web Applications
- Read CONCEPT
- Select the arrow to the right to see the next steps

- In the Edit TravleAgencyWebServers interface
- Select Application Load Balancer
- In Load balancer scheme, select Internet-facing

- In the Practice interface
- Read step 9 of Highly Available Web Applications
- Read CONCEPT
- Select the arrow to the right to see the next steps

- In the Availability Zone and subnets interface
- Select all 3 availability zones
- Select Public subnet
- In Default routing (forward to), select Create a target group
- Select Update

- In the Practice interface
- Read step 10 of Highly Available Web Applications
- Read CONCEPT
- Select the arrow to the right to see the next steps

- In the VPC interface
- Select Security Groups
- Select Create security group

- In the Practice interface
- Read step 11 of Highly Available Web Applications
- Read CONCEPT
- Select the arrow to the right to see the next steps

- In the Create security group interface
- Security group name, enter
TravelAgencyLoadBalancer
- Description, enter
Allow access to the Travel Agency Balancer from the Internet
- Select VPC
- In Inbound rules, select Add rule

- Results after entering information

- In the Practice interface
- Read step 12 of Highly Available Web Applications
- Read CONCEPT
- Select the arrow to the right to see the next steps

- In the Create security group interface
- In Inbound rules, select HTTP, select Source as Custom, select
0.0.0.0/0
- In Outbound rules, select HTTP, select Destination as Custom, select Security group

- In the Practice interface
- Read step 13 of Highly Available Web Applications
- Read CONCEPT
- Select the arrow to the right to see the next steps

- In the Create security group interface
- Select Create security group

- In the Practice interface
- Read step 14 of Highly Available Web Applications
- Read CONCEPT
- Select the arrow to the right to see the next steps

- In the Security Groups interface
- Select Security Groups
- Select TravelAgencyWebServer
- Select Actions
- Select Edit inblound rules

- In the Practice interface
- Read step 15 of Highly Available Web Applications
- Read CONCEPT
- Select the arrow to the right to see the next steps

- In the Inbound rules interface
- Select Delete
- Select Add rule

- In the Practice interface
- Read step 16 of Highly Available Web Applications
- Read CONCEPT
- Select the arrow to the right to see the next steps

- In the Edit inbound rules interface
- Select HTTP
- Select TravelAgencyLoadBalancer security group
- Select Save rules

- In the Practice interface
- Read step 17 of Highly Available Web Applications
- Select the arrow to the right to see the next steps

- In the Practice interface
- Read step 18 of Highly Available Web Applications
- Read CONCEPT
- Select the arrow to the right to see the next steps

- In the VPC interface
- Select Load Balancers
- Select TravelAgencyWebServers-1 ALB
- Select Description

- In the Practice interface
- Read step 19 of Highly Available Web Applications
- Read CONCEPT
- Select the arrow to the right to see the next steps

- In the Security groups interface
- Select Edit security groups
- Select TravelAgencyLoadBalancer
- Uncheck TravelAgencyWebServer
- Select Save

- In the Practice interface
- Read step 20 of Highly Available Web Applications
- Read CONCEPT
- Select the arrow to the right to see the next steps

- In the VPC interface
- Select Load Balancers
- Select TravelAgencyWebServer-1 ALB
- In Description, copy ALB DNS name

- In the Practice interface
- Read step 21 of Highly Available Web Applications
- Read CONCEPT
- Select the arrow to the right to see the next steps

- Open a browser
- Paste ALB DNS name in
- Select Enter
- View results

- In the Practice interface
- Read step 22 of Highly Available Web Applications
- Read CONCEPT
- Select the arrow to the right to see the next steps

- In the browser interface
- Add at the end ALB DNS name:
/health
- View results

- In the Practice interface
- Read step 23 of Highly Available Web Applications
- Read CONCEPT
- Select the arrow to the right to see the next steps

- In the VPC interface
- Select Target Groups
- Select TravelAgencyWebServers-1 target group
- Select Health checks
- Select Edit

- In the Practice interface
- Read step 24 of Highly Available Web Applications
- Read CONCEPT
- Select the arrow to the right to see the next steps

- In the Edit health check settings interface
- In Health check path, enter
/health
- Select Advanced health check settings

- In the Practice interface
- Read step 25 of Highly Available Web Applications
- Read CONCEPT
- Select the arrow to the right to see the next steps

- In the Advanced health check settings interface
- Port, enter
80
- Healthy threshold, enter
5
- Unhealthy threshold, enter
2
- Timeout, enter
2
- Interval, enter
5
- Success code, enter
200
- Select Save changes

- In the Practice interface
- Read step 26 of Highly Available Web Applications
- Read CONCEPT
- Select the arrow to the right to see the next steps

- In the VPC interface
- Select Auto Scaling Groups
- Select TravelAgencyWebServers Auto Scaling group
- In Network, select Edit

- In the Practice interface
- Read step 10 of Highly Available Web Applications
- Read CONCEPT
- Select the arrow to the right to see the next steps

- In the Edit TravelAgencyWebServers interface
- Select lab/TravelAgencyVpc/PrivateSubnet1 subnet
- Uncheck lab/TravelAgencyVpc/PublicSubnet1 subnet
- Select Update

- In the Practice interface
- Read step 28 of Highly Available Web Applications
- Read CONCEPT
- Select the arrow to the right to see the next steps

- In the EC2 interface
- Select Instances
- Select lab/TravelAgencyWebServers instance
- Select Networking
- View Subnet ID
- Select instance state
- Select Terminate instance

- In the Terminate instance interface

- In the Practice interface
- Read step 29 of Highly Available Web Applications
- Read CONCEPT
- Select the arrow to the right to see the next steps

- In the EC2 interface
- Select refresh
- Select new instance
- Select Networking
- View Subnet ID

- In the Practice interface
- Read step 30 of Highly Available Web Applications
- Read CONCEPT
- Select the arrow to the right to see the next steps

- In the VPC interface
- Select Auto Scaling Groups
- Select TravelAgencyWebServers Auto Scaling group
- Select Activity
- View Activity history

- In the Practice interface
- Read step 31 of Highly Available Web Applications
- Read CONCEPT
- Select the arrow to the right to see the next steps

- In the Activity history interface
- View Status
- View Description

- In the Practice interface
- Read step 32 of Highly Available Web Applications
- Read CONCEPT
- Select the arrow to the right to see the next steps

- In the browser health check
- Select refesh
- View the results

- In the Practice* interface
- Read step 33 of Highly Available Web Applications
- Read CONCEPT
- Select the arrow to the right to see the next steps

- In the VPC interface
- Select Auto Scaling Groups
- Select TravelAgencyWebServers Auto Scaling group
- In Network, select Edit

- In the Edit TravelAgencyWebServers interface
- Select lab/TravelAgency/Vpc/PrivateSubnet2
- Select Update

- In the Practice interface
- Read step 35 of Highly Available Web Applications
- Read CONCEPT
- Select the arrow to the right to see the next steps

- In the VPC interface
- Select Auto Scaling Groups
- Select TravelAgencyWebServers Auto Scaling group
- In Group details, select Edit

- In the Practice interface
- Read step 36 of Highly Available Web Applications
- Read CONCEPT
- Select the arrow to the right to see the next steps

- In the Group size interface
- In Desired capacity, enter
2
- In Maximum capacity, enter
2
- Select Update

- In the Practice interface
- Read step 37 of Highly Available Web Applications
- Read CONCEPT
- Select the arrow to the right to see the next steps

- In the EC2 interface
- Select Auto Scaling Groups
- Select TravelAgencyWebServers Auto Scaling group
- Select Activity
- Scroll down Activity history

- In the Practice interface
- Read step 38 of Highly Available Web Applications
- Read CONCEPT
- Select the arrow to the right to see the next steps

- In the Auto Scaling groups interface
- In Activity history, see Status and Description

- In the Practice interface
- Read step 39 of Highly Available Web Applications
- Read CONCEPT
- Select the arrow to the right to see the next steps

- In the EC2 interface
- Select Instances
- Select new instance ID
- Select Networking
- View Subnet ID

- In the Practice interface
- Read step 40 of Highly Available Web Applications
- Read CONCEPT
- Select the arrow to the right to see the next steps

- In the browser health check

- Congratulations to the player on completing the lab
