Integration & Automation
Category: Compute
Securing your bastion hosts with Amazon EC2 Instance Connect
In this second post of a two-part series, learn how to enhance the security of your bastion hosts by using Amazon EC2 Instance Connect. With EC2 Instance Connect, you no longer have to associate a key pair to the instance, and you don’t need to permanently add user keys to authorized keys.
Using a long-lived compute resource as a custom resource in AWS CloudFormation
Learn how to extend AWS CloudFormation by using AWS CodeBuild as a long-lived compute environment. This example is based on the AWX Quick Start.
AWS CloudFormation custom resource creation with Python, AWS Lambda, and crhelper
Learn how to create robust AWS CloudFormation custom resources by using the custom resource helper (crhelper) and AWS Lambda.
A tale from the trenches: The CloudBees Core on AWS Quick Start
David B. Schott, Senior Business Development Engineer at CloudBees, Inc., details his technology adventures building, with a tight deadline and a learning curve, a Quick Start for the CloudBees Core CI/CD product.
Deploying AWS Lambda functions using AWS CloudFormation (the portable way)
AWS Lambda requires its source code to be hosted in an Amazon S3 bucket in the same AWS Region as the Lambda function, which poses challenges when writing AWS CloudFormation templates that are portable across different regions. This post discusses three patterns to address that at stack.