Category: How-To

Many organizations use AWS CloudFormation (CloudFormation) stacks to facilitate blue/green deployments, routinely launching replacement AWS resources with updated packages for code releases, security patching, and change management. To facilitate blue/green deployments with CloudFormation, you typically pass code version identifiers (e.g., a commit hash) to new application stacks as template parameters. Application servers in an Auto Scaling […]

Today we have a guest post from Jeff Nunn, a Solutions Architect at AWS, specializing in DevOps and Big Data solutions. By now you’ve probably heard of AWS CodeCommit–a secure, highly scalable, managed source control service that hosts private Git repositories. AWS CodeCommit supports the standard functionality of Git, allowing it to work seamlessly with […]

Today we have a guest post written by Emeka Igbokwe, a Solutions Architect at AWS. This post walks you through the steps to set up Jenkins and AWS CodeCommit to support 2 simple continuous integration (CI) scenarios. In the 1st scenario, you will make a change in your local Git repository, push the change to […]

AWS OpsWorks customers frequently request the ability to run arbitrary commands. And while OpsWorks sets up and manages the Amazon EC2 instances your application runs on and manages users’ access to your instances, it doesn’t allow running arbitrary commands. Let’s say, for example, that you wanted to run uptime across your fleet. You could create […]

My colleagues Brandon Chavis, Pierre Steckmeyer and Chad Schmutzer sent a nice guest post that demonstrates how to send your container logs to a central source for easy troubleshooting and alarming.   —– On May 5 Amazon ECS launched support for the Amazon CloudWatch Logs Docker driver. This provides a simpler method to send container logs […]

My colleague Nick Humrich wrote up the guest post below to share a powerful way to use the EB CLI to manage environment configurations — Abhishek The AWS Elastic Beanstalk command line interface (EB CLI) makes it easier for developers to get started with Elastic Beanstalk by using command line tools. Last November, we released […]

My colleague Daniele Stroppa sent a nice guest post that demonstrates how to use Jenkins to build Docker images for Amazon EC2 Container Service.   —–   In this walkthrough, we’ll show you how to set up and configure a build pipeline using Jenkins and the Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS).   We’ll be using a sample […]

AWS CodeDeploy does software deployments to any instance, including Amazon EC2 instances and instances running on-premises. It helps avoid downtime during deployments and also provides centralized control over your applications, instances, deployments and deployment configurations. You can learn more about CodeDeploy here. This post explains how to automatically start a CodeDeploy deployment when you upload […]

AWS CodeDeploy is a new service that makes it easy to deploy application updates to Amazon EC2 instances. CodeDeploy is targeted at customers who manage their EC2 instances directly, instead of those who use an application management service like AWS Elastic Beanstalk or AWS OpsWorks that have their own built-in deployment features. CodeDeploy allows developers […]

When you provision an Amazon EC2 instance in an AWS CloudFormation stack, you might specify additional actions to configure the instance, such as install software packages or bootstrap applications. Normally, CloudFormation proceeds with stack creation after the instance has been successfully created. However, you can use a CreationPolicy so that CloudFormation proceeds with stack creation […]