Tag: cloud

Using Workflows to Build, Test, and Deploy with Amazon CodeCatalyst

January 29, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Amazon CodeCatalyst workflows are continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines that enable you to easily build, test and deploy applications. CodeCatalyst was announced at re:Invent 2022 and is currently in preview. Introduction: I recently read The Unicorn Project, the follow-up to the bestselling title The Phoenix…

Deliver Operational Insights to Atlassian Opsgenie using DevOps Guru

January 28, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

As organizations continue to grow and scale their applications, the need for teams to be able to quickly and autonomously detect anomalous operational behaviors becomes increasingly important. Amazon DevOps Guru offers a fully managed AIOps service that enables you to improve application availability and resolve…

Managing Dev Environments with Amazon CodeCatalyst

January 24, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

An Amazon CodeCatalyst Dev Environment is a cloud-based development environment that you can use in CodeCatalyst to quickly work on the code stored in the source repositories of your project. The project tools and application libraries included in your Dev Environment are defined by a…

Develop a serverless application in Python using Amazon CodeWhisperer

January 23, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

While writing code to develop applications, developers must keep up with multiple programming languages, frameworks, software libraries, and popular cloud services from providers such as AWS. Even though developers can find code snippets on developer communities, to either learn from them or repurpose the code,…

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…

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…