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Enable service discovery for your microservices with mu Read more…

Cloud Custodian is a CLI tool that manage your AWS account with a config file. Cloud Custodian can help you manage your AWS account using a simple policy config file and time-based or event-based Lambdas. Read more…

Use mu to manage microservice databases in the continuous delivery pipeline Read more…

AWS CodeStar is a new service that changes the way development teams deliver software in AWS. CodeStar makes the process of setting up software applications for continuous delivery easier to manage through integrated authorization and access management, centralized member collaboration, and automated environment provisioning. 1 (1) “Working with AWS CodeStar Teams.” Working with AWS CodeStar Read more…

In this episode, Paul Duvall and Brian Jakovich are joined by Trey McElhattan from Stelligent to cover recent DevOps in AWS news and speak about AWS CodeStar – which enables you to quickly develop, build, and deploy applications on AWS. AWS CodeStar provides a unified user interface, enabling you to easily manage your software development activities in one place. Read more…

My friend and colleague, Stephen Goncher and I got to spend some real time recently implementing a continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline using only Ruby. We were successful in developing a new module in our pipeline gem that handles many of the docker engine needs without having to skimp out on testing and code Read more…

Key Benefits OS and CM agnostic InSpec runtime is faster than ServerSpec DRY – Componentization of test suites using shared InSpec Profiles Removes downloading of Gem files on every test execution Quick to Change from ServerSpec to InSpec CLI binary available to run tests from CI/CD Allows usage of community test suites Allows usage of Read more…

Automation testing is crucial to the success of a continuous delivery pipeline. This post demonstrates the use of mu to add tests to a pipeline. Read more…

Is updating your firewall a painful, slow process? Does the communication gap between development teams and security teams cause frustration? If so, you’re not alone. In technology organizations, changes to firewalls tend to be slow and typically cause developer teams and security teams numerous headaches. However, controlling firewall and security settings with a pipeline, managed with CloudFormation can Read more…

Late last year, a new package management system for Javascript was introduced known as Yarn, designed to replace the deficiencies found in npm. Yarn has been showing up on Twitter and StackOverflow answers, but it isn’t always clear what the benefits and tradeoffs are, which is what this post aims to clear up. Yarn was Read more…