Articles on CI/CD and DevOps with CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CloudFormation, and more
Declaratively define deployment target paths and lifecycle hooks using AppSpec files. Learn about fleet management with tag-based deployment groups and Auto Scaling integration.
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.
Automate everything from source change detection to build, test, and deployment. Learn about V2 trigger filters, manual approval actions, and cross-account deployment design.
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.
Automate everything from environment setup to rolling deployments. Learn the criteria for selecting deployment policies and customization techniques using .ebextensions.
Build multi-container configurations on the Docker platform and bring health checks and log management to production quality through ECS integration.
Manage deployment strategies across three platforms - EC2, ECS, and Lambda - in a unified way. This article covers ECS blue/green deployments and automatic rollback triggered by CloudWatch alarms.
A detailed look at the Working Backwards process created by Amazon, including PR/FAQ document structure and writing techniques, how it differs from the 6-Pager, and how to adopt it in your own projects.
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.
Learn about CI/CD pipeline automation using AWS CodePipeline and CodeBuild.