DevOps Posts

As a passionate advocate for automation, I have been using AWS CloudFormation since the first day I started migrating my applications to AWS. I need to manage my time efficiently and should not repeat myself. By applying automation in infrastructure provisioning and keeping my architecture as a code; I can save, test and re-use my work later.

Infrastructure as code is a key DevOps practice and AWS CloudFormation is your service on AWS to realize it. In this post I explain 11 reasons for using AWS CloudFormation and automating provisioning of your infrastructure.

Save your time, bring quality to your process by starting to prepare your CloudFormation templates today!

Let’s say that you are a developer building awesome applications using Node.js or Python, but lacking knowledge and experience necessary to configure AWS environments. No worries! Elastic Beanstalk can make your life easier by handling configuration details. It uses preconfigured CloudFormation templates and provisions a scalable, load balanced and reliable environment for your application. It supports lots of programming languages, giving you less control but less worry in return. You can start from a single instance and make your architecture grow into a multi-instance cluster.

Although it may sound simple until now, actually Elastic Beanstalk is more than this. It provides you many deployment options and you can select one of them depending on your environment and use case. In this post, I will explain the options and when to consider them. ... read more

Automating deployments of your web applications brings many benefits, especially when you run them on AWS. You standardize the process, prevent human errors and can integrate with other AWS services like EC2 Autoscaling and Elastic Load Balancing. Today I will talk about how you can automate your Ruby on Rails deployments using AWS CodeDeploy. ... read more

In some cases, you may need to transfer your objects in one of your Amazon S3 buckets to a different AWS account. AWS CLI provides high-level commands on S3 to move objects between two buckets. By also using Amazon S3 bucket policies, you can perform this even if the destination bucket is in another AWS account. Today, I will talk about the steps you need to do along with a few explanation on bucket and object level permissions. ... read more

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is one of the first AWS services I started using. It allows you to send automated emails without maintaining your email servers. It is scalable, easy to use with AWS SDKs and cost-effective.

However, you need to do more than verifying your domain on Amazon SES for your emails not to end in your users’ spam folder. In this blog post, I will discuss how you can increase the deliverability of your emails by setting DKIM and SPF authentications on Amazon SES. ... read more