Tag: automation

Building .NET 7 Applications with AWS CodeBuild

January 22, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed DevOps service for building and testing your applications. As a fully managed service, there is no infrastructure to manage and you pay only for the resources that you use when you are building your applications. CodeBuild provides a default…

The most visited AWS DevOps blogs in 2022

January 21, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

As we kick off 2023, I wanted to take a moment to highlight the top posts from 2022. Without further ado, here are the top 10 AWS DevOps Blog posts of 2022. #1: Integrating with GitHub Actions – CI/CD pipeline to deploy a Web App…

Manually Approving Security Changes in CDK Pipeline

January 20, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

In this post I will show you how to add a manual approval to AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) Pipelines to confirm security changes before deployment. With this solution, when a developer commits a change, CDK pipeline identifies an IAM permissions change, pauses execution, and…

How Contino improved collaboration with Amazon CodeCatalyst

January 18, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Amazon CodeCatalyst is a modern software development service that empowers teams to deliver software on AWS easily and quickly. CodeCatalyst provides one place where you can plan, code, and build, test, and deploy applications with continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) tools. It also helps streamlined team…

Secure CDK deployments with IAM permission boundaries

January 17, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

The AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) accelerates cloud development by allowing developers to use common programming languages when modelling their applications. To take advantage of this speed, developers need to operate in an environment where permissions and security controls don’t slow things down, and in…

re:Invent 2022 DevOps and Developer Productivity Playlist

January 15, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Danielle Kucera, Karun Bakshi, and I were privileged to organize the DevOps and Developer Productivity (DOP) track for re:Invent 2022. For 2022, the DOP track included 58 sessions and nearly 100 speakers.  If you weren’t able to attend, I have compiled a list of the on-demand…

Introducing Open Source AWS CardDemo for Mainframe Modernization  

December 15, 2022 By Mark Otto 0

We are excited to share that AWS has open sourced its AWS Mainframe Modernization CardDemo application for use by the community modernizing mainframe applications. CardDemo is a sample mainframe application. It is designed and developed to test AWS Mainframe Modernization and partner technology for many…