AWS now support deploying Lambda directly from GitHub Actions. While this sounds like a good idea it doesn’t solve most of the problem, and it makes CI/CD breakages more likely.
Infrastructure-as-Code is a standard technique that brings speed, effort, and safety benefits to software and infrastructure deployment. With a few specific nuances it can be effectively used with resources managed within an AWS Organization, and is a valuable addition to your Org Ops strategy.
This article introduces you to AWS’ solution to securing your Organization for human access - Identity Center. By the end of this article you’ll understand why you may want to use it, and be able to configure appropriate and secure human user access across your entire AWS Organization with relatively little effort.
Once you’ve planned the structure of your AWS Organization, you need to build it out. This article helps you prepare and implement the Accounts in your standardized Organization.
It makes sense for most companies using AWS to adopt a multi-Account AWS Organization. This article explains why, and how you can start planning a structured Organization as part of a holistic approach to company-wide “org ops”.
AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) has become, in its short history, a very popular infrastructure-as-code tool. It’s not too surprising why - it allows engineers to use richer programming languages to define infrastructure, rather than having to use JSON or YAML.
AWS CodePipeline is AWS’ CD orchestration tool. We’re fans of CodePipeline at Symphonia : we use it with our clients, and on our own projects. To read a quick overview of CodePipeline see this earlier article that I wrote.
Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) are techniques that I’ve had a passion about for a long time. Back in the Dim And Distant Past of 2003 I even co-led an open source project that brought some at-the-time interesting innovations to this area.
Mike and John chatted with our friends at Stelligent — Paul Duvall and Brian Jakovich as part of their DevOps in AWS Radio podcast series. We covered a lot in this conversation!
