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Stelligent: Continuous Delivery/DevOps and Cloud Resources Reading List

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…

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Creating a Secure Deployment Pipeline in Amazon Web Services

Many organizations require a secure infrastructure. I’ve yet to meet a customer that says that security isn’t a concern. But, the decision on “how secure?” should be closely associated with a risk analysis for your organization. Since Amazon Web Services (AWS) is often referred to as a “public cloud”, people sometimes infer that “public” must Read more…

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Laying the Foundations of a Continuous Delivery Pipeline

This article is part of the Continuous Delivery Blueprints series. It discusses how to go from no cloud infrastructure and no continuous integration set up to having a functioning Continuous Delivery Pipeline in Amazon Web Services. It discusses high level topics while also providing a reference implementation so it’s easy to follow along with. You Read more…

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Getting Started with AWS (the right way)

This article is part of the Continuous Delivery Blueprints series. It discusses how to go from no cloud infrastructure and no continuous integration set up to having a functioning Continuous Delivery Pipeline in Amazon Web Services. It discusses high level topics while also providing a reference implementation so it’s easy to follow along with. Everyone Read more…

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Continuous Delivery in the Cloud: Infrastructure Automation (Part 6 of 6)

In part 1 of this series, I introduced the Continuous Delivery (CD) pipeline for the Manatee Tracking application. In part 2, I went over how we use this CD pipeline to deliver software from checkin to production. In part 3, we focused on how CloudFormation is used to script the virtual AWS components that create Read more…

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Continuous Delivery in the Cloud: Deployment Automation (Part 5 of 6)

In part 1 of this series, I introduced the Continuous Delivery (CD) pipeline for the Manatee Tracking application. In part 2 I went over how we use this CD pipeline to deliver software from checkin to production. In part 3, we focused on how CloudFormation is used to script the virtual AWS components that create Read more…