Tag: deployment

Announcing General Availability of Amazon CodeCatalyst

April 22, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

We are pleased to announce that Amazon CodeCatalyst is now generally available. CodeCatalyst is a unified software development service that brings together everything teams need to get started planning, coding, building, testing, and deploying applications on AWS. CodeCatalyst was designed to make it easier for…

Create a CI/CD pipeline for .NET Lambda functions with AWS CDK Pipelines

April 21, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is an open-source software development framework to define cloud infrastructure in familiar programming languages and provision it through AWS CloudFormation. In this blog post, we will explore the process of creating a Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline for…

Extending CloudFormation and CDK with Third-Party Extensions

March 31, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Did you know you can use CloudFormation to manage third-party resources? The AWS CloudFormation Public Registry provides a searchable collection of CloudFormation extensions and makes it easy to discover and provision them in CloudFormation templates and AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) applications. In the past three months, we’ve added…

Securely validate business application resilience with AWS FIS and IAM

February 25, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

To avoid high costs of downtime, mission critical applications in the cloud need to achieve resilience against degradation of cloud provider APIs and services. In 2021, AWS launched AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS), a fully managed service to perform fault injection experiments on workloads in AWS…

Improve collaboration between teams by using AWS CDK constructs

February 23, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

There are different ways to organize teams to deliver great software products. There are companies that give the end-to-end responsibility for a product to a single team, like Amazon’s Two-Pizza teams, and there are companies where multiple teams split the responsibility between infrastructure (or platform)…

Using GitHub Actions with Amazon CodeCatalyst

February 9, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

An Amazon CodeCatalyst workflow is an automated procedure that describes how to build, test, and deploy your code as part of a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) system. You can use GitHub Actions alongside native CodeCatalyst actions in a CodeCatalyst workflow. Introduction: In a prior…

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…

Organize your AWS Serverless code to prevent merge conflicts

January 27, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

How do you prevent the most common merge conflicts when your team is working on a Serverless application? How do you make sure that your team stays productive and avoids large merge issues while trying to update the same crucial files simultaneously? –The answer to…