Automating computing docker images on AWS E2C machines [closed]

Question

I would like to distribute some of my computing programs on multiple machines when a specific process is started from a web gui. For this, I need to start several aws e2c machines, deploy my software (docker), run the programs, and shut down the e2c instances again. During all times I would like to have an api to query the status of the cluster (visualizing it in my own web gui in ruby on rails).

Now I have seen several systems out there like capistrano, ansible, chef,puppet... But since I am new to this topic its very difficult for me to choose one for my task. I would like to keep the management simple without to dive too deep into the infrastructure science.

Could someone recommend me a specific system which is best suited for the described task?

Answer 1

Ansible.

• Agentless (doesn't require you to install software on machines before you can manage then)
• Simple to pick up the tasks are pretty much YAML and plain English
• Ansible already has great EC2 and Docker modules