Prepare your DevOps Culture to Withstand the Digital Experience Onslaught
Install the AWS CodeDeploy service with CloudFormation
When creating an AWS EC2 instance, there is a User Data section where you can include scripts that will be run immediately upon instance creation. I was attempting to use AWS CloudFormation to define the infrastructure of my current project and ran into the issue of how to include the User Data section in the CloudFormation JSON definition.
Tags: AWS, CloudFormation, DevOps
Docker Deployment
DevOps is harder than it sounds
If you're like me, when you learned about containers, you got SUPER excited. There is something about wrapping up your code in a nice little package where it has everything it needs to run in a happy little space where it's nice and warm. BUT; how'm I supposed to get my happy warm little container out into the real world where it can actually do some good? This is harder question to answer.
Iterate on CloudFormation Development with CodePipeline
Infrastructure as code is amazing. The fact that we can build entire environments using CODE is nothing short of miraculous. But tell me if this has ever happened to you:
Tags: AWS, CloudFormation, DevOps