In this episode, we cover recent DevOps in AWS news and speak about the AWS EC2 Container Service (ECS), EC2 Container Register (ECR), HashiCorp Consul, AWS CodePipeline, and other tools to provide solutions for customers Read more…
In this three-part series, I’ll explain ServerSpec infrastructure testing and how we use it at Stelligent, provide some concrete examples demonstrating how we use it at Stelligent, and discuss how Stelligent has extended Serverspec with custom AWS resources and matchers. We will also walk through writing some new matchers for an AWS resource. If you’re Read more…
Linux containers are a relatively new abstraction framework with exciting implications for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery patterns. They allow appropriately designed applications to be tested, validated, and deployed in an immutable fashion at much greater speed than with traditional virtual machines. When it comes to production use however, an orchestration framework is desirable to maintain Read more…
At Stelligent, we put a strong focus on education and so I wanted to share some books that have been popular within our team. Today we explore the world of microservices with “Building Microservices” by Sam Newman. Microservices are an approach to distributed systems that promotes the use of small independent services within a software Read more…
This article outlines a proof-of-concept (POC) for automating Habitat operations from AWS CodePipeline. Habitat is Chef’s new application automation platform that provides a packaging system that results in apps that are “immutable and atomically deployed, with self-organizing peer relationships.” Habitat is an innovative technology for packaging applications, but a Continuous Delivery pipeline is still required to automate deployments. For Read more…
In this episode, Paul Duvall and Brian Jakovich from Stelligent cover recent DevOps in AWS news and speak about automating Compliance using AWS Config, Config Rules and AWS Lambda. Read more…
Highlights and Announcements ChefConf 2016 was held in Austin, TX last week, and as usual, Stelligent sent a few engineers to take advantage of the learning and networking opportunities. This year’s conference was a 4 day event with a wide variety of workshops, lectures, keynote speeches, and social events. Here is a summary of the Read more…
In this post, we’ll be talking about creating cross-account access for DynamoDB. DynamoDB is a NoSQL Database in the cloud provided by Amazon Web Services. Whether you’re creating a production deployment pipeline that leverages a shared Keystore or deploying an application in multiple accounts with shared resources, you may find yourself wondering how to provide Read more…
Add manual approvals to an existing CodePipeline pipeline – manually or via CloudFormation – to minimize your CodePipeline costs. Read more…
Using smart algorithms, code is automatically integrated and pushed to production in nanoseconds as a developer continues to work as long as it passes myriad validation and verification checks in the deployment pipeline. The developer is notified of success or failure in nanoseconds passively through their work environment. Read more…