The AWS IoT platform consists of many products and services: Greengrass, IoT Core, Amazon FreeRTOS, and Device Defender to name a few. It can be difficult to know where to start when piecing together each of the offerings to create an IoT solution. This guide covers automating Amazon FreeRTOS building and development as well as Read more…
This is an older post. For newer information please check out these posts: Deployment Pipeline Compliance and Control – a Service-based Approach Continuous Compliance on AWS with CodePipeline and CloudFormation Continuous Compliance on AWS Workflow How does compliance work in many organizations? From what I’ve seen, it might look something like this: ‘Internal compliance is Read more…
What happens, though, when a change is made manually to the deployed software? This is referred to as configuration drift and it represents a major source of technical debt. Read more…
In the book, Accelerate, by Forsgren, et al., it states the following about Segregation of Duties: What About Segregation of Duties?…First, when any kind of change is committed, somebody who wasn’t involved in authoring the change should review it either before or immediately following commit to version control. Second, changes should only be applied Read more…
In this episode, Paul Duvall and Brian Jakovich cover recent DevOps on AWS news along with a discussion with one of the founding fathers of Continuous Integration, Paul Julius. Here are the show notes: DevOps on AWS News DevOps on AWS News: mu 1.5.4 Support for the new SSM Session Manager Support for SSM Inventory Read more…
AWS CodePipeline is a managed service that orchestrates workflow for continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment. With CodePipeline, you define a series of stages composed of actions that perform tasks in a release process from a code commit all the way to production. It helps teams deliver changes to users whenever there’s a business Read more…
In our previous post on automating AWS Budgets, I included an embedded audio file that read each word of the blog post. I did this using an AWS service called Amazon Polly – which turns text into lifelike speech using deep learning. I got the idea after noticing that Jeff Barr, Chief Evangelist at AWS, had started providing this capability Read more…
Learn how to automate AWS Budgets in CloudFormation Read more…
A HashiCorp Nomad cluster is blazingly fast and stable. The simplicity of its singular purpose makes for extremely fast container and process scheduling, as well as cluster convergence events. Using the Raft consensus protocol, Nomad is great for running microservices and batch jobs. This blog post will describe deploying a Nomad cluster on AWS with Read more…
The Amazon SageMaker machine learning service is a full platform that greatly simplifies the process of training and deploying your models at scale. However, there are still major gaps to enabling data scientists to do research and development without having to go through the heavy lifting of provisioning the infrastructure and developing their own continuous Read more…