AWS CloudWatch logs is an useful logging system, but in practice we run into two quircks: It does not allow you to set a default retention period for newly created log groups. Secondly it does not delete empty log streams that are older than the retention period. In this blog we introduce a utility that will fix these two issues. It can be installed as a CLI or deployed as an AWS Lambda.
Read more...What if you want to assign static, private IP addresses to instances in an auto scaling group, and you do not want to use a load balancer? nor grant permissions to attach network interfaces in a startup script? Enter the network interface manager, which manages the assignment of a pool of network interfaces to instances!
Read more...What if you want to associate a pool of Elastic IP addresses to an auto scaling group, without using a load balancer? Nor grant permissions to bind the elastic IP in a startup script? Enter the elastic IP manager, which manages the assignment of a pool of Elastic IP addresses to instances!
Read more...Google Cloud Run is a new service that was announced on Cloud Next 19. In this blog, I’ll give you an introduction and compare it to App Engine and Cloud Functions.
Read more...Sometimes a resource, such as AWS::EC2::EIP, does support tags but not in CloudFormation. The request for tagging support in CloudFormation has been outstanding at AWS for quite some time now. So in this blog, we will show you how to add tags to any resource using a CloudFormation custom provider.
Read more...In this blog we show you how to store secrets in Google Cloud Platform using Berglas. Berglas combines the features of Google Cloud Storage, Google Key Management Serviceand Google Identity and Access management to create a secret store. It stores secrets safely and needs explicit authorization to access them. Google Cloud Platform logs any access to the secrets in the audit trail.
Read more...This blog post describes how you can create a complete VPC, including the calculation of subnets with the use of the Fn::Cidr intrinsic function, an internet gateway, route tables, routes and subnet associations using Rubycfn. The product of this Rubycfn script is a CloudFormation template that you can deploy.
Read more...When you look at AWS services like CodeBuild, CodeCommit, CodePipeline and ECR, you would think it is very easy to create a simple CI/CD build pipeline for a docker image. But it is not. In this blog we will introduce a CloudFormation template which creates a serverless CI/CD pipeline for Docker images. The template allows you to create CI/CD pipelines for Docker images in minutes!
Read more...AWS Global Accelerator is an awesome service which was announced in 2018, but unfortunately without CloudFormation support. In this blog we show you how to configure your accelerators, listeners and endpoint groups in CloudFormation using a custom provider.
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