This is the final post in our blog series about CFNDSL and we’ll be talking about some advanced use cases for the DSL and reviewing some troubleshooting techniques for both the DSL and CloudFormation. Looking for the beginning? Check out our first and second parts of the series where we introduce CFNDSL and discuss how Read more…
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…