In this demonstration, you’ll perform a simple walkthrough of a two-stage pipeline using the CodePipeline console. This is based on AWS’ Simple Pipeline Walkthrough. A screencast is provided below. Using the AWS console is often the best way to get familiar with the concepts around any new AWS service. The console is also a good way to Read more…
This is the final post in our blog series about CFNDSL and we’ll be talking about some advanced use cases for the DSL and reviewing some troubleshooting techniques for both the DSL and CloudFormation. Looking for the beginning? Check out our first and second parts of the series where we introduce CFNDSL and discuss how Read more…
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…
I’ve been spending a lot of time with AWS CodePipeline over the past few months and I’m really excited about where it’s going in terms of what I consider to be a true Continuous Delivery service. What’s more, I can codify everything in CodePipeline itself using CloudFormation so that I can reliably modify and provision Read more…
Recently, AWS announced that they’ve added support for triggering AWS Lambda functions into AWS CodePipeline – AWS’ Continuous Delivery service. They also provided some great step-by-step documentation to describe the process for configuring a new stage in CodePipeline to run a Lambda function. In this article, I’ll describe how I codified the provisioning of all of Read more…
CFNDSL is a tool originally created by Chris Howe and is an open source project begging for your contributions to improve and grow. The purpose of the tool is to provide a simple DSL for AWS CloudFormation templating with ruby. If you’re just now joining us I suggest you take a look at the first post Read more…
Everybody loves AWS CloudFormation. It’s a powerful configuration management tool to provision and manage resources in your AWS account in code. In 2011, when CloudFormation was released there was much rejoicing from DevOps personnel around the world, however, one simple thing has made it a painful tool to adopt and use efficiently: JSON. JSON overall Read more…
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…