Tag: Automation

This second post on TaskCat takes a closer look at the features, options, and some tips and tricks that you can use to customize TaskCat when testing automated deployments.

See best practices that you can apply in developing AWS Quick Starts to help gain broad customer reach and impact.

Automate the documentation of AWS CloudFormation templates by using a serverless solution that eliminates the need to run local scripts.

Instead of manually cleaning up your temporary AWS CloudFormation stacks, use this mechanism to automatically delete your demonstration stacks after a specified amount of time has elapsed.

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.

Learn how to use TaskCat, an open source tool developed by the AWS Quick Start team, to automate the testing of AWS CloudFormation templates.

Circular dependencies can be frustrating to resolve. In this post we will talk about what leads to circular dependencies, a few examples of circular dependencies and approaches to solve them.

Introducing the Quick Start Team and our blog: Why we decided to have a blog dedicated to infrastructure and automation, and the type of content we intend to cover.