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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
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Introducing AWS Copilot

Launch blog for AWS Copilot, a new command line app for Amazon Elastic Container Service

Jul 9, 2020 - Official AWS Blog
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Modern Tools for Containerized Applications on AWS - AWS User Group Colombo

I presented for a meetup with the AWS User Group in Colombo, Sri Lanka to talk about building a modern containerized application using the AWS native container stack.

Jun 22, 2020 - 1 hr 9 min watch
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The Critical Role of Engineering in Your Cloud Center of Excellence Panel

I presented in a panel on building a cloud center of excellence at CloudLive 2020, organized by CloudHealth by VMware. The panel was led by Deb MacCallum, and the other panelists were Riley Jenkins, and Brent Strong.

May 20, 2020 - 1 min read