This first half of this year featured lots of news about Arm processors (previously ARM) that culminated in three major announcements. The first was the general availability announcement from AWS of M6g Instances, powered by AWS Graviton2 processors in May. In June, Apple announced that they were migrating desktops and laptops to new Arm based Read more…
Over the years at Stelligent, we’ve used many metrics and have debated on which are best for our customers. Therefore, it’s extremely beneficial to finally have a canonical source for the relevant metrics that matter to organizations that is backed by data and analysis – if for no other reason then to stop wasting time on debating the finer points of certain metrics. Read more…
Everyone talks about unit and functional tests when adopting Devops practices, but how do you know if one of your changes has introduced a major performance degradation? Performance testing is the missing link to having a truly Continuously Deliverable pipeline. In this blog post, you will see how performance tests can be integrated into your Continuous Delivery Read more…
With AWS CodePipeline Notifications, developers and others can receive notifications on events that occur in your pipelines?—?including pipeline, stage, and action changes. For example, you can receive email notifications on pipeline failures. Because CodePipeline notifications leverage Amazon CloudWatch Events, you can also integrate it with AWS resources such as SNS, Lambda, SQS, SSM, EC2, Inspector, Kinesis 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…
Key Benefits OS and CM agnostic InSpec runtime is faster than ServerSpec DRY – Componentization of test suites using shared InSpec Profiles Removes downloading of Gem files on every test execution Quick to Change from ServerSpec to InSpec CLI binary available to run tests from CI/CD Allows usage of community test suites Allows usage of Read more…
If you’re a member of the tech industry then you’ve probably had to work with legacy code — those ancient systems that just hold everything together. Not every project is greenfield, thus “Working Effectively with Legacy Code” by Michael Feathers is a book that has a reputation that would provide a good insight into how Read more…
In the last post we created two basic applications each with a basic shell script to automate deploying them into AWS. In this post we will continue refactoring those deploy scripts to work on getting them setup using a common pipeline. We are aiming to have the pipeline executable code configured through metadata allowing us Read more…
Continuous Security: Security in the Continuous Delivery Pipeline is a series of articles addressing security concerns and testing in the Continuous Delivery pipeline. This is the fifth article in the series. Introduction The purpose of this blog series is to show how AWS Config and Lambda can be used to add Security Integration tests to a Continuous Read more…
Continuous Security: Security in the Continuous Delivery Pipeline is a series of articles addressing security concerns and testing in the Continuous Delivery pipeline. This is the first article in the series. As the internet has matured and grown the need for stronger security has exceeded that pace. Penetration testing has become a large part of Read more…