AWS OpsWorks

Name: AWS OpsWorks API
Brand: AWS OpsWorks
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★ Only Publicly Available OpenAPI DocumentDeveloper ToolsCi Cdhmac74 EndpointsREST

Install Jentic One Beta

Connect the AWS OpsWorks to your agent

Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the AWS OpsWorks, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.

Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.

Step 1: Jentic One Host machine

# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh

Step 2: Agent machine

# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh
jentic register       # connects your agent to your Jentic One instance

Jentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with AWS OpsWorks API.

Provision Stacks on top of a VPC and define Layers (web, app, db, custom) with per-layer Chef recipes

Add EC2 instances to layers and manage their lifecycle with start, stop, restart and reboot calls

Deploy Apps to a stack via Deployments that run setup, configure, deploy and shutdown Chef recipes

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For Agents

Manage Chef-based application stacks on EC2 - provision stacks, layers, instances, deploy apps, run Chef recipes, and orchestrate time- and load-based scaling.

Use for: Create an OpsWorks stack in a VPC for a Rails app, Add a web layer with a custom recipe to an OpsWorks stack, Register a new EC2 instance under the app layer, Start all instances in a stack

Not supported: Does not handle source-code building, container orchestration, or serverless deployment - use for Chef-driven OpsWorks Stacks lifecycle, deployments, and instance scaling only.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use AWS OpsWorks API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Manage Long-Running Chef-Based Application Stacks

Operations teams that already run Chef cookbooks for their applications can use OpsWorks Stacks as the managed orchestrator. CreateStack, CreateLayer, CreateInstance, and CreateApp wire up a full deployment topology with built-in recipes for Rails, Node.js, PHP, Java and static layers, plus support for arbitrary custom recipes referenced from S3 or git. The agent can then call CreateDeployment to roll out new app versions through the standard Chef lifecycle.

Call CreateStack with a VpcId and Chef configuration, CreateLayer with Type=rails-app, CreateInstance and CreateApp, then CreateDeployment with Command.Name=deploy

Lifecycle Control for Instances Across a Stack

Cost and reliability work needs the ability to stop and restart whole environments out-of-hours or after configuration changes. OpsWorks exposes per-instance and stack-level lifecycle commands - StartStack, StopStack, RebootInstance, RestartInstance - and surfaces the resulting Chef run state via DescribeInstances. An agent can pause non-production stacks at end of day and bring them back up the following morning to save EC2 costs.

Call StopStack on the dev stack at 19:00, then StartStack at 07:00 the next morning, polling DescribeInstances until Status=online

Automate Migration Off OpsWorks Stacks

AWS has announced End-of-Life for OpsWorks Stacks, so existing customers need an inventory and migration path. The DescribeStacks, DescribeLayers, DescribeInstances and DescribeApps endpoints give a full inventory that an agent can read, transform into Systems Manager or CloudFormation equivalents, and use to drive a phased migration. The same endpoints support audit reporting on what is still running on the OpsWorks platform.

Call DescribeStacks, then for each stack call DescribeLayers, DescribeInstances and DescribeApps, and write a CSV mapping each component to its target replacement service

AI Agent Integration for Stack Operations

Through Jentic, an agent can drive OpsWorks Stacks from natural-language intents - provision, deploy, lifecycle, audit - without learning the per-resource layout of the API. Jentic returns each operation's input schema and brokers SigV4 credentials, so legacy Chef-based estates can be inventoried, paused and migrated with LLM tool calls.

Resolve the intent 'deploy an app to an OpsWorks stack' via Jentic search, load CreateDeployment, and execute it with stackId, appId and Command.Name=deploy

Key Endpoints

74 endpoints — jentic publishes the only available openapi specification for aws opsworks, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

POST

/#X-Amz-Target=OpsWorks_20130218.CreateStack

Create a new OpsWorks stack

POST

/#X-Amz-Target=OpsWorks_20130218.CreateLayer

Add a layer to a stack

POST

/#X-Amz-Target=OpsWorks_20130218.CreateInstance

POST

/#X-Amz-Target=OpsWorks_20130218.CreateApp

Define an app to deploy to a stack

POST

/#X-Amz-Target=OpsWorks_20130218.CreateDeployment

Run a Chef command across a stack

POST

/#X-Amz-Target=OpsWorks_20130218.StartStack

Start all instances in a stack

POST

/#X-Amz-Target=OpsWorks_20130218.StopStack

Stop all instances in a stack

POST

/#X-Amz-Target=OpsWorks_20130218.DescribeInstances

Describe instances by stack, layer, or id

POST

/#X-Amz-Target=OpsWorks_20130218.CreateStack

Create a new OpsWorks stack

POST

/#X-Amz-Target=OpsWorks_20130218.CreateLayer

Add a layer to a stack

POST

/#X-Amz-Target=OpsWorks_20130218.CreateInstance

POST

/#X-Amz-Target=OpsWorks_20130218.CreateApp

Define an app to deploy to a stack

POST

/#X-Amz-Target=OpsWorks_20130218.CreateDeployment

Run a Chef command across a stack

Why Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

Your AWS access key is stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and used to sign each OpsWorks request with SigV4 at execution time. The raw secret never enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'deploy an app to an OpsWorks stack' or 'stop an OpsWorks stack overnight', and Jentic returns the matching OpsWorks operation such as CreateDeployment with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the AWS reference.

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FAQs

Specific to using AWS OpsWorks API through Jentic.

Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for AWS OpsWorks?

AWS does not publish an OpenAPI specification. Jentic generates and maintains this spec so that AI agents and developers can call AWS OpsWorks via structured tooling. It is validated against the live API and kept up to date. Get started with Jentic One, the self-hosted execution layer.

What authentication does the AWS OpsWorks API use?

OpsWorks is signed with AWS Signature Version 4 using IAM access keys. Each stack additionally has its own permissions model - SetPermission grants a user SSH and sudo access on instances inside a stack. Through Jentic, AWS credentials live in your Jentic One instance and are used to sign each control-plane call on the agent's behalf.

Can I deploy an app across all instances with a single API call?

Yes. CreateDeployment takes a stackId, an optional appId, an optional list of instanceIds, and a Command (Name=deploy, undeploy, configure, restart, execute_recipes, etc.). If you omit instanceIds, OpsWorks runs the command across the whole stack and returns a deploymentId you can poll with DescribeDeployments.

What are the rate limits for OpsWorks?

OpsWorks applies per-account throttling on the control plane. Long-running operations like CreateInstance + StartInstance run Chef recipes that can take several minutes per instance, so always poll DescribeInstances rather than retrying the create call.

How do I deploy an app through Jentic?

Use the Jentic search query 'deploy an OpsWorks app', load CreateDeployment, and execute it with stackId, appId and Command.Name=deploy. Jentic signs the request with SigV4 against your stored AWS credentials and returns the deploymentId, which the agent can then check with DescribeDeployments.

Is AWS OpsWorks Stacks being deprecated?

AWS has communicated that OpsWorks Stacks will reach End-of-Life. The control-plane API remains available for existing customers, but new workloads should target Systems Manager, CloudFormation, or container-based services. The Describe* endpoints are particularly useful for inventorying existing stacks ahead of migration.

Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the AWS OpsWorks API?

Yes. Jentic One is self-hosted, so the rules you set on your own instance decide which OpsWorks operations and AWS credentials your agent can use. Because OpsWorks carries stack, layer, and instance ids in the request body rather than the URL path, scoping is done per operation rather than by path prefix. You can allow only the operations the agent needs, such as DescribeStacks and CreateDeployment, and leave destructive ones like DeleteStack and DeleteInstance out unless you explicitly add them.

AWS OpsWorks

Connect the AWS OpsWorks to your agent

Capabilities

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Use Cases

Key Endpoints

Why Jentic?

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