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DevOps on AWS Radio: AWS CodePipeline and Amazon Alexa (Episode 11)

In this episode, Paul Duvall and Brian Jakovich cover recent DevOps on AWS news and discuss how to use AWS CodePipeline to deploy Amazon Alexa skill. Here are the show notes: DevOps on AWS News Infrastructure as Code whitepaper from AWS cfn_nag mentioned Use CloudFormation StackSets to Provision Resources Across Multiple AWS Accounts and Regions How to Use AWS Organizations Read more…

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Use AWS CodePipeline to Deploy Amazon Alexa Skills

If you’ve done any experimentation with the Amazon Alexa voice service, you’ve probably learned that you can use AWS Lambda to write functions that can be executed from Alexa. As a developer, what’s exciting about this is that you can create your own custom Alexa skills to perform anything suited for voice-based computing. You’ll probably Read more…

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DevOps in AWS Radio: Serverless (Episode 8)

In this episode, Paul Duvall and Brian Jakovich cover recent DevOps in AWS news and speak with Mike Roberts and John Chapin from Symphonia about Serverless architectures, DevOps, and AWS. Here are the show notes: DevOps in AWS News You can now provision AWS Web Application Firewall on Application Load Balancer resources using AWS CloudFormation Agency Panel Discussion about DevOps and Read more…

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Provision a hosted Git repo with AWS CodeCommit using CloudFormation

You’ll learn how to provision a CodeCommit Git repository in a CloudFormation template. Furthermore, you’ll discover how to automate the provisioning of a deployment pipeline that uses this repository as its Source action to deploy an application using CodeDeploy to an EC2 instance. You’ll see examples, patterns and a short video that walks you through the process. Read more…

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Refactoring CD Pipelines – Part 1: Chef-Solo in AWS AutoScaling Groups

We often overlook similarities between new CD Pipeline code we’re writing today and code we’ve already written. In addition, we might sometimes rely on the ‘copy, paste, then modify’ approach to make quick work of CD Pipelines supporting similar application architectures. Despite the short-term gains, what often results is code sprawl and maintenance headaches. This blog post series is aimed at helping to Read more…

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DevOps in AWS Radio: AWS CodeCommit and CodePipeline using CloudFormation (Episode 1)

In this episode, Paul Duvall and Brian Jakovich from Stelligent cover recent DevOps in AWS news and do a deep dive into automating the integration of AWS CodeCommit and CodePipeline using CloudFormation. Finally, they bring you into a Stelligent roundtable to discuss recent DevOps in AWS engagements with customers. About DevOps in AWS Radio On Read more…