Articles on CI/CD and DevOps with CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CloudFormation, and more
Manage deployment strategies for the three platforms EC2 / ECS / Lambda in a unified way. This article introduces ECS blue/green deployments and automatic rollback linked to CloudWatch alarms.
Automate everything from detecting source changes through build / test / deploy. This article introduces the design of V2 trigger filters, manual approval actions, and cross-account deployments.
Deployment is automated from environment setup to rolling deployments. This article introduces criteria for choosing deployment policies and customization techniques using .ebextensions.
This article introduces techniques for building a multicontainer configuration on the Docker platform and bringing health checks and log management up to production quality through integration with ECS.
Explains the details of the Working Backwards process that Amazon created, the structure of a PR/FAQ document and how to write one, how to choose between the PR/FAQ and the 6-Pager, and how to adopt it in your company's own projects.
Learn about Proton's infrastructure template management, separation of environments and services, and developer self-service design.
Face the reality that AWS services have lifespans, examining cases like CodeCommit's enrollment freeze and SimpleDB's de facto end, and provide a technology selection perspective for identifying services that will endure.
Learn about practicing chaos engineering with AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS). Covers designing fault injection scenarios, injecting faults into EC2, ECS, and RDS, and conducting safe experiments.
Learn about CI/CD pipeline automation using AWS CodePipeline and CodeBuild.
Learn how CloudFormation drift detection internally compares the current state of resources with the expected state defined in templates, the boundary between detectable and undetectable changes, and strategies for drift remediation.
Learn about the internal processing flow when CloudFormation updates a stack, including how change sets detect differences, the logic behind resource update, replacement, and deletion decisions, and how rollbacks work.
Declaratively define deployment target paths and lifecycle hooks using AppSpec files. Learn about fleet management with tag-based deployment groups and Auto Scaling integration.