How to disable AWS OpsWorks Auto-Update
AWS OpsWorks. Image courtesy of Amazon Web Services Does AWS OpsWorks drive you nuts with its auto-update feature eating up your resources and messing up your deployments? There is now a solution to mitigate that, with manageable agent updates. This recently-added feature allows you to select if you'd like to opt in for agent auto-updates or would you like to stick to a specific (and tested by you) version of AWS OpsWorks. Go to Add Stack page, in the OpsWorks Agent Version field, choose Manual update and pick a version. Try this out today by editing one of your stacks to specify an agent version (be sure to do this in your test environment first). This updates the agents and cookbooks on all online instances in that stack immediately. Click the Changelog link to learn about the changes that come with the new agent. You can also update the agent on a single instance instead of the entire stack by selecting a version on the Edit Instance page. AWS OpsWorks con