Upcoming updates to CloudFormation to enable faster and more productive development. Cloudformation templates are incredibly expressive, providing the ability to automate resource creation and configuration of many AWS services and create custom resources to accomplish an unlimited number of tasks. Cloudformation, by default, treats these stacks as single units while they are being created. If Read more…
As Enterprises adopt modern application architectures, they now find they need the capability to deliver hundreds or even thousands of distinct applications while meeting stringent security and compliance requirements. Scaling the capability to deliver software securely requires a new framework for defining, creating, and delivering infrastructure and application code and brings a new set of Read more…
Let’s imagine this scenario: Today is the first day of your new gig. With overwhelming nervous energy, you’re awake so early you wonder how people normally wake up at this hour, you even combed your hair today (maybe even showered?) and you’re ready to put your best foot forward and conquer the world. You have Read more…
At Stelligent, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is foundational to our mantra of “Automate Everything”. This is reflected in our new engineer training, Stelligent U, which has recently been open-sourced. Throughout the training, we focus on creating and updating resources via CloudFormation. Even with templates provided as reference, the engineer is the ultimate decision-maker for building Read more…
Open Sourcing Our DevOps Training Platform: Stelligent U Our onboarding program for new engineers is now open source! Every Stelligent DevOps Automation Engineer for the past several years has gone through this program. We’re very excited to begin sharing it now with the open source community. You can find it here: https://github.com/stelligent/stelligent-u What is Stelligent Read more…
Stelligent has a variety of projects running on Google Cloud Platform, and we want to be diligent about controlling our costs. As a long-time remote-first enterprise, our communication centers around Slack, and we want all of our alerts to be delivered there. We’ve developed a simple way to connect Google Cloud Billing to Slack by Read more…
OVERVIEW Administering AWS infrastructure through CloudFormation is one way to use Infrastructure as Code to simplify and replicate an environment. Here at Stelligent, we encourage using automation to apply CloudFormation templates. An early hurdle with CloudFormation one might encounter is a mistake that would break the initial creation of the stack. When CloudFormation fails during Read more…
Introduction Many enterprises attempt to drive software development and delivery towards a DevOps mindset. Likewise, organizations struggle with increasing security challenges while adopting these innovative software practices. Embedding security within the deployment lifecycle is non-negotiable. Therefore, integration of security into CI/CD workflows need to be done cautiously to meet an ever-evolving technology landscape. DevSecOps is Read more…
CloudFormation Development Process and Privilege As a developer works through the development of a CloudFormation template, they are likely working in a “sandbox” account where they have significant “power user” privileges. This is convenient in order to allow the developer to focus on the business needs, but what happens when the same template is converged Read more…
This is part one of a two part series on Amazon Inspector. This article goes over some of the features of Amazon Inspector and covers some of the pros and cons of the service. The second article within this series is a quick start on implementing Amazon Inspector in automated AMI pipelines. Introduction to Amazon Read more…