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Articles tagged with #cloudformation
I mused how we sometimes do the equivalent of Pearl Diving when taking on new skills. Its the idea of deep learning a stack of one or more new things while under the pressure of needing the end state code to reflect a maturity level significantly hig...
For a long time I have been playing with the concept of Enablement Automation Code as a Product. The alternative is roughly “as a quick start template”. In this case, this is not actually a product - but the effort is managed with all the perspective...
While noodling uses for the Ultimate AWS ASG Kickstart and Lab Kit I realized it could use a couple new features and improvements. The first is to have instances self-tag themselves as to whether they are a spot or on-demand instance. When supporting...
A while back I wrote a blog and companion Cloud Formation templates for experimenting with the ways an ELB creation template could be linked to an ASG. That iteration was based on an ASG template designed to show how to kernel patch linux and reboot ...
I’ve been studying for the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer exam and CloudFormation is a big topic. Understanding the more complex ways to configure interrelated stacks is a must know for this exam. I like to learn by doing and I started to wonder if I ...
Linux has a long and strong reputation for rarely needing a reboot - and it lives up to that reputation very well. Recently I had to devise a solution for a case where it frequently needs a reboot, but you can’t easily take one. AWS ASGs are notoriou...
