Opsworks is a convenient, powerful and free service provided by AWS to simplify the management of EC2 nodes. The real power of the system is exposed through customizing various stages of the instance lifecycle by creating custom-tailored chef-solo recipes. While Amazon provides a powerful deployment layer for PHP applications, it stops short once the PHP code has been checked out of git. For Laravel or other composer apps, you’ll have to customize your deployment. The most elegant and...| Tony Metzidis
Amazon Opsworks supplies its users with a nice collection of starter cookbooks on GitHub. Berkshelf prefers users treat each cookbook as its own software project, but for Opsworks users, that is not an option. Let me demonstrate a few ways you can use Berkshelf in tandem with Amazon Opsworks.| Seth Vargo
