In this blog post, you’ll see an example of Application Auto Scaling for the Amazon ECS (EC2 Container Service). Automatic scaling of the container instances in your ECS cluster has been a feature for quite some time, but until recently you were not able to scale the tasks in your ECS service with built-in technology from AWS. In May of 2016, Automatic Scaling with Amazon ECS was Read more…
In this blog post, you see a demonstration of Continuous Delivery of a static website to Amazon S3 via AWS CodeBuild and AWS CodePipeline. At the conclusion, you will be able to provision all of the AWS resources by clicking a “Launch Stack” button and going through the AWS CloudFormation steps to launch a solution stack. Using S3 Read more…
You have a large organization with several development teams that work on various software projects that support your business. A year ago, you brought in a consultant that told you to use multiple AWS accounts because there were benefits to be gained. For example, using multiple accounts we can contain the damage from a possible Read more…
mu is an open-source, full-stack DevOps on AWS tool that simplifies and orchestrates your software delivery lifecycle (environments, services, and pipelines). Read more…
If you’ve done any experimentation with the Amazon Alexa voice service, you’ve probably learned that you can use AWS Lambda to write functions that can be executed from Alexa. As a developer, what’s exciting about this is that you can create your own custom Alexa skills to perform anything suited for voice-based computing. You’ll probably Read more…
NixOS, and declarative immutable systems, are a great fit for CI/CD pipelines. With the entire system in code, ensuring and auditing reproducible environments becomes easy. Applications can also be “nixified,” so both system and application are fully declarative and in version control. The NixOS system is mounted read-only, which makes for a good fit in Read more…
In this episode, Paul Duvall and Brian Jakovich cover recent DevOps in AWS news and speak with Ahmed Elsabbahy about Goss, a ServerSpec alternative for testing server configuration. Here are the show notes: DevOps on AWS News How to Create an AMI Builder with AWS CodeBuild and HashiCorp Packer AWS CloudFormation now supports Amazon EMR security configuration, AWS Lambda & AWS Read more…
Today, we’re going to give you the “Hello, world” of web stacks and explain how you could run WordPress with mu. This is the fifth post in Stelligent’s blog series on mu, where we’ll lay out a path for using mu to run WordPress and try to hit a target that’s often hard to find Read more…
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been reminded once again of why Cyber Security is of the utmost importance. Not only can security breaches cause a denial of service but they can also cause loss of intellectual property, espionage and many other embarrassing incidents. As a member of IT staff, instead of relying just on security team, every member should Read more…
Cloud Custodian is a CLI tool that manage your AWS account with a config file. Cloud Custodian can help you manage your AWS account using a simple policy config file and time-based or event-based Lambdas. Read more…