Category: Integration & Automation

Learn how to use a code pipeline to automate the static file generation and content publishing process of a Hugo website.

Learn how to create an AWS CloudFormation template that runs code prior to terminating an EC2 Auto Scaling instance.

See how you can automate the deployment of a full-stack Microsoft development or testing environment by using a combination of the VPC, Active Directory, SQL Server, SharePoint, Exchange Server, and RD Gateway Quick Starts.

Learn how you can use AWS CloudFormation to model and deploy Kubernetes resource manifests or Helm charts into an HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service (HAQM EKS) cluster.

TaskCat 0.9 introduces some significant changes that aim to make TaskCat a general-purpose AWS CloudFormation testing tool.

Learn how to securely access HAQM S3 during bootstrapping by using S3-authenticated objects.

Best practices for addressing security and access control and configuration when bootstrapping EC2 instances in the HAQM Web Services Cloud.

In this quick recap, I feature five blog posts that show how you can use custom resources to extend AWS CloudFormation templates, from start to stack cleanup, when you’re building automated deployments.

Learn how to automate the installation of cfn-init helper scripts across operating systems by invoking quickstart-linux-utilities at stack launch.

Track what is happening with your HAQM EC2 instance at creation time by leveraging CloudWatch to externalize log data. Use AWS Secrets Manager for credential security with PowerShell scripts, and create a reusable AWS CloudFormation template.