In this chapter, we established a foundational understanding of what CI/CD is and how it supports the software delivery processes. This is key for software automation, which further drives digital innovation. Selecting a tool from countless options available these days can be a difficult task. We discussed key areas that could simplify the selection process. … Read more
Before we can deploy pipeline resources, we need to have the underlying infrastructure and application components available. This is mainly to ensure that inter-stack dependencies are met so that the pipeline stack to be deployed successfully: We now have all the resources that we need in our AWS account to roll out application changes automatically. … Read more
Many years back, when I was starting with infrastructure automation on AWS, I used to bundle together some CLI commands in a Bash script and fire it off when new AWS accounts required bootstrapping. It worked like a charm for basic setups but surfaced limitations in other areas such as ongoing management, updates, stack removals, … Read more
Under the hood, AWS CDK is more of a transpiler. Transpilers are programs that convert a piece of source code from one high- level language into another. The output from these programs has the same level of abstraction as the input. This is fundamentally different from compilers as they produce low-level code that directly interacts … Read more
In addition to using Amazon Rekognition under the hood, our test application also depends on a few others to offer an end-to-end workflow for the user. Here is a list of all the components and the role they play: The entire workflow is depicted in Figure 6.2: Figure 6.2 – Automatic image labeling with Amazon … Read more
There are three main stages of progression when working with a CDK-based application: cdk bootstrap To create a new project directory with the required prerequisites for CDK, in the programming language of your choice, use the following command: cdk init app –language typescript To create the templates and assets that represent Cloud Assembly, use the … Read more