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Cross-Account Access Control with Amazon STS for DynamoDB

In this post, we’ll be talking about creating cross-account access for DynamoDB. DynamoDB is a NoSQL Database in the cloud provided by Amazon Web Services. Whether you’re creating a production deployment pipeline that leverages a shared Keystore or deploying an application in multiple accounts with shared resources, you may find yourself wondering how to provide Read more…

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Automating ECS: Provisioning in CloudFormation (Part 1)

In this two-part series, you’ll learn how to provision, configure, and orchestrate the EC2 Container Service (ECS) applications into a deployment pipeline that’s capable of deploying new infrastructure and code changes when developers commit changes to a version-control repository so that team members can release new changes to users whenever they choose to do so: Continuous Delivery. Read more…

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Create a Pipeline for Elastic Beanstalk in CodePipeline using CloudFormation and CodeCommit

In Building Continuous Deployment on AWS with AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins and AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS describes how to manually configure CodePipeline to deploy an Elastic Beanstalk application. In this post, after describing how to create and connect to a new CodeCommit repository, I’ll explain how to fully automate the provisioning of all of the AWS resources Read more…

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Serverless Delivery: Orchestrating the Pipeline (Part 3)

In the second post of this series, we focused on how to get our serverless application running with Lambda, API Gateway and S3. Our application is now able to run on a serverless platform, but we still have not applied the fundamentals of continuous delivery that we talked about in the first part of this Read more…

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Serverless Delivery: Bootstrapping the Pipeline (Part 2)

In the first of this three part series on Serverless Delivery, we took a look at the high level architecture of running a continuous delivery pipeline with CodePipeline + Lambda. Our objective is to run the Dromedary application in a serverless environment with a serverless continuous delivery pipeline. Before we can build the pipeline, we Read more…

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Create a Cross-Account Pipeline in AWS CloudFormation

When creating pipelines in AWS CodePipeline, you may want to make these pipelines available to other AWS accounts. When doing this, you’ll likely want to make these pipelines read only. A typical use case is that you want consistency for certain types of pipelines across an enterprise by providing a view of these pipelines to other Read more…

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Serverless Delivery: Architecture (Part 1)

If your application tech stack doesn’t need servers, why should your continuous delivery pipeline? Serverless applications deserve serverless delivery! The software development discipline of continuous delivery has had a tremendous impact on decreasing the cost and risk of delivering changes while simultaneously increasing code quality by ensuring that software systems are always in a releasable Read more…