A few weeks ago, I’d described the process I went through for provisioning CodePipeline using CloudFormation. As part of the provisioning of AWS CodePipeline, we were using the AWS CodePipeline CLI to provision a couple of custom actions. In my initial refactoring of the CodePipeline provisioning, I didn’t include the provisioning of the CodePipeline custom actions Read more…
Since our entire focus at Stelligent is to help our customers apply Continuous Delivery in Amazon Web Services (AWS), we were really excited when we learned that AWS CloudFormation added support for AWS CodePipeline. I spent some time upgrading our Dromedary demo scripts to incorporate this new functionality. This article describes the process we applied in making Read more…
See the YouTube screencast and transcript below of a Continuous Deployment pipeline demonstration for a Node.js application using AWS services such as EC2, DynamoDB, Route 53, ENI and VPC and tools such as AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins, Chef and AWS CloudFormation. Open source code is available at https://github.com/stelligent/dromedary Transcript In this screencast, you’ll see a live 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…
On a routine basis, we get asked which tools we use at Stelligent in delivering our solutions. Sometimes it’s a company interested in our services. Other times, it’s someone going though our hiring process (yes, we are hiring!). So, I’ve put together a list of the tools that we use in implementing Continuous Delivery in Amazon Web Services (AWS). All of our work 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…