Creating an Application Load Balancer and Auto Scaling Group in AWS

Lab Details

1. This lab walks you through the steps to create and configure an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling with Launch templates using the AWS Management Console. 

2. You will practice using Amazon Machine Image (AMI) to launch Amazon EC2 Instances using Launch templates and will use key pairs for SSH authentication to log into your instance.

3. You will create a web page and publish it.

4. Duration: 55 minutes

5. AWS Region: US East (N. Virginia)

Lab Tasks:

1. Log into AWS Management Console.

2. Create a security group and key pair for the launch template.

3. Create a Launch template with Amazon Linux 2 AMI and t2.micro instance.

4. Create an auto-scaling group with the Launch template.

5. Test the auto-scaling group by terminating one of the instances manually.

Architecture Diagram:

Task Details

1. Launching Lab Environment

2. Create a Security Group for the load balancer

3. Create a Security Group for Launch template

4. Create a Key Pair for the Launch template

5. Creating a Launch template

6. Creating the Load Balancer

7. Create an Auto Scaling Group

8. SSH into EC2 Instance

9. Install the stress

10. Test Auto Scaling Group

11. Validation of the Lab