Perform the following tasks to deploy the basic application server stack, outlined in the following guide from AWS: AWS OpsWorks Getting Started: Windows

As you go through the Getting Started guide, take screenshots of your work for documentation purposes. Save them in the Basic Application Stack Deployment Documentation Template

1. Create the stack
2. Authorize RDPaccess
3. Implement a custom cookbook
4. Add an IIS layer
5. Deploy an app

• Follow the instructions in “Deploy an app” to deploy the one-page “Hello World” app using the deploy.rb recipe. Modify the page to include your name in the greeting: “Hello World from <yourname>”

Evaluate the Scalability of Your Application Server Stack 

After deploying a basic application server stack, you can proceed to the next step, in which you will determine the scalability of your stack to see how it handles loads, distributions, and requests.In the previous step, you deployed a basic application server stack. But you know that at some point, you will have to ensure that your stack is scalable to meet BallotOnline’s future workloads. 

Now evaluate the scalability of your stack to showcase how your application server stack may handle increased load by adding more application servers and creating a load balancer to evenly distribute incoming traffic among those servers.

Take Action

Follow the instructions on how to add a load balancer in the AWS OpsWorks documentation.

Remember to take screenshots for each task and save them to the Basic Application Stack Deployment Documentation Template used in the previous step.