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AWS Velocity Series: EC2 based app CI/CD pipeline
In the previous article, you learned how to use CloudFormation to describe a production-ready infrastructure for an EC2 based app. In this article you will learn to: Automate the creation of an AMI that contains the app with Packer Deploy a CloudFormat...
AWS Velocity Series: EC2 based app infrastructure
To run a production-ready application on EC2 gives you maximum freedom but also maximum responsibilities. By production-ready, I mean: Highly available: no single point of failure Scalable: increase or decrease the number of instances based on load Fri...
DZone Cloud Guide including Serverless Architectures on AWS
DZone released a new guide: Cloud Native Development & Deployment. I’m proud that my article Serverless Architectures on AWS is part of the free ebook as well. Key takeaways from my articleA serverless platform allows you to run your application in...
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Andreas Wittig
Andreas is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) and DevOps enthusiast. His first cloud project was to build the infrastructure for an online banking platform on AWS. Andreas loves to teach no matter if virtual or face-to-face. He is the author of Amazon Web Services in Action, published by Manning.
Michael Wittig
Michael Wittig is author of Amazon Web Services in Action (Manning). He helps his clients to gain value from Amazon Web Services. As a software engineer he develops cloud-native real-time web applications. He has expertise in distributed system development and architecture, with experience in algorithmic trading and real-time analytics.
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New CloudFormation Templates - ECS Cluster & Service, legacy VPC wrapper, automated tests
We released v3 of our free and open source CloudFormation templates. This release brings: new templates for containerized workload with ECS new templates to wrap an existing VPC into the format that is needed by all our templates test suite that we run...
AWS Velocity Series: Running your application
There are many options when it comes to running an application on AWS. EC2 based, containerized, or serverless. Choosing the best option for your specific use case is important. All options that I present are what I call production-ready: Highly availa...
AWS Velocity Series: CI/CD Pipeline as Code
The Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment pipeline is a major section of your software assembly line. It starts with the code repository and ends with the deployment into your production environment. CI/CD includes many steps that all depend on...
