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Exploring Fn::ForEach and Fn::FindInMap enhancements in AWS CloudFormation

August 1, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

AWS CloudFormation, an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) service that lets you model, provision, and manage AWS and third-party resources, recently released a new language transform that enhances the core CloudFormation language. Today, we’ll be covering two more enhancements we’ve added since our initial release: Fn::FindInMap…

How to write and execute integration tests for AWS CDK applications

July 21, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Automated integration testing validates system components and boosts confidence for new software releases. Performing integration tests on resources deployed to the AWS cloud enables the validation of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies, service limits, application configuration, and runtime code. For developers that are…

Weaveworks and AWS Joining Forces to Maintain Open Source eksctl

July 13, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

In 2019 we announced in partnership with Weaveworks, that the open source eksctl CLI tool was the officially supported CLI tool for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). Jointly developed by AWS and Weaveworks, eksctl simplifies and automates much of the experience of creating EKS…

Running GitHub Actions in a private Subnet with AWS CodeBuild

July 11, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Last week the Developer Tools team announced that AWS CodeBuild now supports GitHub Actions. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that allows you to build and test code. CodeBuild builds are defined as a collection of build commands and related settings, in…