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Answering some misconceptions about AWS Cloud Development Kit

You might know me as a strong advocate for AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). I feel that CDK is one of the best ways to create your infrastructure on AWS so I spend a fair amount of time talking about CDK and writing and sharing example code.

Nov 12, 2020 - 13 min read
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A look at developer experience for Amazon ECS, with AWS Copilot and AWS Cloud Development Kit

I presented at the Cloud Field Day 9 to show the recent progress in developer experience for Amazon ECS. I built a basic hit counter application, written in Node.

Nov 6, 2020 - 45 min watch
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Amazon ECS Service Extensions for AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)

I joined Brent Langston and Adam Keller for a live Containers from the Couch episode about @aws-containers/ecs-service-extensions. I spent a little time explaining how AWS Cloud Development Kit can help you build architecture better, and faster.

Oct 22, 2020 - 1 hr 6 min watch
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Speeding up Amazon ECS container deployments

Container orchestration is a complex problem. There are many different components communicating with each other in support of your application container deployment. First the orchestrator starts your application.

Oct 19, 2020 - 10 min read
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Using AWS Copilot to Build CI/CD + Integration tests for your ECS app

I joined Containers from the Couch for a live show with Adam Keller and Paavan Mistry to talk about using AWS Copilot to setup a deploy pipeline that builds and releases a Docker container to AWS Fargate on git push.

Sep 11, 2020 - 46 min read
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Open Source RFC: AWS CDK module for an extendable ECS service construct

This is a public request for comments (RFC) that I wrote for the open source AWS Cloud Development Kit project. At the time of posting the implementation for this RFC is a pull request I opened on the project.

Sep 2, 2020 - 17 min read
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Automatically deploying your container application with AWS Copilot

This article shows how to use AWS Copilot to create a pipeline for automatically building your Docker container, running integration tests against a QA environment, and then deploying to production on AWS Fargate.

Aug 28, 2020 - Official AWS Blog
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AWS What's Next - AWS Copilot Launch

This livestream was part of season one, episode 8 of AWS What’s Next, live on Twitch. I did a show takeover to talk about AWS Copilot with Efe Karakus from the ECS developer experience team.

Jul 24, 2020 - 39 min watch
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AWS Cloud Containers Conference Q&A

For the AWS Cloud Containers Conference I did a live Q&A session on Twitch with Brent Langston, Adam Keller, and Nathan Taber. We covered the launch of CDK8s and CDK8s+ as well as AWS Copilot.

Jul 9, 2020 - 59 min watch