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…
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…
Today, NetFlix announced its first open source release in its Simian Army – the Chaos Monkey. The Chaos Monkey assumes that everything will fail…eventually. The Chaos Monkey runs, by default, on your Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) infrastructure and randomly terminates instances in Auto Scaling Groups. We wrote about some of the benefits of treating instances Read more…