Category: Technical How-to

In today’s fast-paced software development landscape, containerization has become an essential tool for building and deploying applications. With all the necessary tools and dependencies encapsulated in a container, developers can effortlessly set up and replicate development environments on various machines. The key steps involved in building and running containers typically include: Building container images using […]

Use HCL to orchestrate tasks that query AWS (and other services you regularly use), then act on the results.

We built a formal model of Cedar in Lean, and proved that Cedar’s components satisfy key safety and security properties.

Learn how to build a multicloud resource data lake populated by open source CloudQuery, how to normalize the data to perform analytics against it, and recommendations for how to implement CloudQuery to operate at scale.

Learn how to use the Backstage add-on from Amazon EKS Blueprints and the Backstage pattern from Amazon EKS Blueprints Patterns, to deploy a pre-built and pre-configured Backstage application.

Apache Airflow‘s active open source community, familiar Python development as directed acyclic graph (DAG) workflows, and extensive library of pre-built integrations have helped it become a leading tool for data scientists and engineers for creating data pipelines. Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) is a fully managed service that makes running open source […]

This is the second blog post in our series “Istio on EKS”, where we uncover Istio’s transformative benefits for microservices in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). In our previous blog, Getting started with Istio on EKS, we explained how to set up Istio on Amazon EKS. We covered core aspects such as Istio Gateway, […]

In the dynamic landscape of modern architecture, making microservices work seamlessly in the cloud can be a puzzle. The transition to microservices often brings complexities related to traffic management, security, and observability. This is where Istio steps in, offering a comprehensive service mesh solution that streamlines these challenges. Istio is an open source service mesh […]

Using AWS serverless technologies, the open source OpenAPI specification, and the Swagger editor allows us to rapidly define APIs and focus on the endpoints.

Streamline Spinnaker service configurations using open source Kustomize components, Spinnaker Operator, and Amazon EKS Blueprint.