The CDK Cometh…and It’s Here
AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) has just hit general availability, and it’s trying to dethrone terraform. CDK is AWS’ response to the limitation and criticism levied against cloud formation –…
Extending CloudFormation Using Custom Resources
With the breakneck pace at which Amazon launches new services and features, it’s frequent that our inner DevOps wants to leap into action and introduce it into our CloudFormations. Often,…
AWS Serverless Application Repo
AWS releases so many services one might lose track of some neat features in all the news. One such gem is AWS Serverless Application Repo. It is a collection of…
I <3 Parameter Store
When AWS announced EC2 System Manager (SSM) back in mid-2017, it included this innocuous feature called Parameter Store. I paid very little attention to it since most of our company…
TL;DR – Augeas: Editing Config Files, Made Easy
As we venture further down the AWS Cloud path, one thing becomes clear. To indeed Cloud at scale - you have to automate the hell out of everything you do.…
TL;DR – The Cloud Series: Intro to the Cloud Pt 2
In the first blog post of the series, we talked about the cloud in general and the shift in mentality needed to move away from self-managed on-prem VMware environments. The next…
TL;DR – The Cloud Series: Intro to the Cloud
Bypassing the hype of the Cloud, let's have a conversation about how to think about the Cloud in a practical and useful way. We’ll skip the hyperbole that the Cloud…