The Stelligent Team

At Stelligent we are continually improving our methods for developing immutable infrastructure. One pattern we have adopted is to use a layered approach when provisioning AWS resources through CloudFormation. This leads to the break down of a single-purpose monolithic CloudFormation template, into multiple, reusable templates. While we find this approach to be more scalable and maintainable, Read more…

RESTON, VIRGINIA (PRWEB) OCTOBER 06, 2015 Stelligent, a specialized technology services firm focused exclusively on DevOps Automation in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud, announced today that it has achieved the AWS Partner Network (APN) DevOps Competency designation. This means that Stelligent has demonstrated technical proficiency and proven success in helping customers achieve continuous delivery Read more…

The Stelligent contingent had a great time at AWS re:Invent 2015 and there’s a lot of things we want to talk about! This year, Dave Winter from AWS planned a Part Deux of his Infrastructure as Code presentation from last year and invited Stelligent’s CTO Paul Duvall to present how we manifest “IaC” in Stelligentland, Read more…

AWS can be a big tease. Last November at re:Invent, they announced AWS CodePipeline, an orchestration engine for builds. As they described it, I got more and more excited, up until the point they said it wouldn’t be released in mid-2015. Well, today might as well be Christmas, because CodePipeline has just been released and I am already figuring Read more…

In the introduction to this series on deployment pipelines in Amazon Web Services (AWS), I covered the nine “stages” that we use as a starting point for our Continuous Delivery in AWS implementations at Stelligent. This first “stage” I’ll be describing is on establishing the support infrastructure for the deployment pipeline. It’s not what I think Read more…

This is the first article in a series that will be describing the typical stages and steps we define when implementing deployment pipelines for our customers. This first article introduces what will be covered in more detail in other articles in this series. All we do at Stelligent is implement Continuous Delivery in Amazon Web Read more…

CodeDeploy is a new AWS offering, just announced today at re:Invent, and it is the Goldilocks of AWS deployment tools. Where CloudFormation gives you a ton of freedom, it does require a bit of work to get it to deploy your app. Elastic Beanstalk makes it super easy to deploy an app, but if your Read more…

Continuous Delivery/Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery (CD) Patterns and Antipatterns (Duvall): http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/continuous-delivery-patterns Anatomy of a Deployment Pipeline (from CD book): http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1621865 Continuous Delivery Assembly Line: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIaVsG7m8n4 CD Reference Implementation in AWS (Duvall) Pragmatic Automation? (Duvall) DevOps is not only Infrastructure Automation (Duvall) Continuous Delivery book (Humble, Farley): http://amzn.com/0321601912/ Continuous Integration book (Duvall, et al.): http://amzn.com/0321336380/ Recipes Read more…

Have you ever tried to google for a list of AWS Regions or Availability Zones? I do it all the time. I need to figure out which AZs to my ELB should go across, or want to try my new CloudFormation template in a different region to make sure I didn’t hardcode something I shouldn’t Read more…

While OpsWorks gives you a lot of power and flexibility for configuring your infrastructure, it’s most powerful feature is its ability to get you through your Netflix queue: OpsWorks takes a really long time to do anything, so you’re left twiddling your thumbs a lot. And if you’re trying to troubleshoot an issue, you can Read more…