Hello all! Welcome to the next issue of the Tidy Cloud AWS bulletin! In this issue we have a Git cheat sheet, a book recommendation, the Pulumi challenge and videos…
Hello all! Welcome to the next issue of the Tidy Cloud AWS bulletin! In this issue we have a bit on juggling credentials for multiple AWS accounts (Cloudglance), EKS Blueprints…
Hello all! Welcome to the next issue of the Tidy Cloud AWS bulletin! In this issue, I will focus a bit on some tools from Common Fate, AWS Skill Builder…
Hello all! In this issue of the bulletin, we will talk a bit about CDK8s, the CDK-style tool for defining Kubernetes configurations, and why use a CDK-style tool in the…
How do you improve your skills and usage of cloud infrastructure and solutions, in particular in AWS?
Chances are that you, the reader of this text are interested in this area. Practice is one answer, but that is not enough. It should be directed and focused practice, and it should be safe to fail and learn from the experience.
Here are some key points that I believe an adult person needs to be successful in learning relevant skills, booth in the cloud space as well as in other areas
In part 1 we introduced an AWS CloudFormation feature called Drift Detection, with which we can detect (uncontrolled) changes to the resources we manage via CloudFormation. We showed this in the AWS Management Console.
In this part, we are creating simple scripts to start the drift detection process on our CloudFormation stacks, as well as checking the result of detected drifts on the stacks. This will allow us not only to check on a single stack at a time but also on multiple stacks and multiple regions in one operation.
If you use the principles of infrastructure as code to provision your cloud infrastructure, you get many benefits from it - repeatable, quick, and consistent deployments. You also need to apply discipline in how you update the infrastructure - it has to be through the same infrastructure as code workflow. If anyone modifies the infrastructure through other means, like the AWS Management Console, then all bets are off and you may end up with a mess.
Fortunately, some tools can help to keep your cloud infrastructure tidy. If you use AWS CloudFormation, then you have a feature called Drift Detection which may help you detect when someone changes the infrastructure through other means than CloudFormation. Read further to see how you can use Drift Detection for your benefit.
Are you excited about using AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) to define infrastructure-as-code?
Do you think that the AWS CDK project initialization is a bit clunky and does not give you what you need to hit the ground running with a new AWS CDK project?
Do you use Typescript? (by choice or by request)
If most of these have the answer yes, you do want to continue reading this article!
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