A tale of two tools - Pulumi and AWS CDK
Two tools have gained some adoption recently in the infrastructure as software space are Pulumi and AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK). In this article I am going to compare…
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How to become an infrastructure-as-code ninja, using AWS CDK -part 8
In this article, we are going to wrap up this article series on using AWS CDK for managing infrastructure as code. We will cover two topics in this article: Monitoring…
How to pick an infrastructure as code language
You can use several languages today to define cloud infrastructure as code. Sometimes, you have a range of languages to choose from, even for a single tool.
So what language is the right choice? My intention with this article is to give you some guidance on how to pick the right language for you.
How to become an infrastructure-as-code ninja, using AWS CDK - part 7
In this article, we are going to expand on the service in ECS we have already defined in part 6 and make it a load-balanced service that can automatically scale…
Infrastructure-as-code - where is the customer obsession, AWS?
AWS has a problem with its handling of customers’ adoption of infrastructure as code. This applies to CloudFormation, and by extension, to the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK). This…
How to set up ad hoc (developer) environments
Have you had a task to fix a supposedly simple thing in a project, a code or configuration change, only to spend most of the time to set up the environment so you can do the fix in the first place?
The setup you just did for this now clutter your setup, and conflicts with other projects? In order to get back to your old working environment, you have to do some re-installs of software packages?
