Building a static website with Hugo and the CDK If you ever wanted to host your personal website or blog on AWS this article is right for you. We’re going to build a static website with Hugo, CodeBuild and CodePipeline and host it using CloudFront and S3. We will set up everything you need to build and deploy new versions of the Website.
In this post I’m going to show you how to use Cognito User Authentication in combination with a Docker app running in Fargate behind an Application Load Balancer and we’re going to build all this with the Cloud Development Kit (CDK). Why would you want to use this? You’re running your web application inside a docker container and don’t want to deal with user authentication.
“Infrastructure definition has to be declarative”. Let’s see where this presumption gets us. My guess why some ops guys prefer pure terraform or CloudFormation is that these languages seem to be easier to understand. There is precisely one way of creating a specific resource in the language. If you use a programming language, there are many ways to solve one specific problem. The problem which could occur later in the project is that both declarative languages have boundaries in what they can do, with a programming language you do not have these boundaries.
Alexa live coding Installations The AWS Usergroup Hannover meets on 21. of November at tecRacer. Details on the meetup website of the event Das Treffen wird in deutsch stattfinden! Um life mitzumachen, müssen ein paar Tools installiert werden. Ein twitch stream zur Installation und später das Treffen seht ihr in den twitch clips: hier Streaming starts twitch.tv/tecracerDas Streaming beginn 19:00 Zeitzone Europe/Berlin unter twitch.tv/tecracer Node, npm See Website Test node --version ASK Alexa Skills kit cli
Defenders: Caller based EC2 security The risk with security credentials is that they get exposed an are being used elsewhere. What if we could prevent that the are being used elsewhere. The idea from the article of William Bengston from netflix was: Dynamically locking credentials to the environment. This implementation of this idea is much more simple with the cdk. So, let’s defend ourselves! Our story here is the battle of the defenders (tm).
We need more CDK examples In this github repo we focus on examples for every day work. While there are some nice examples for the fancy stuff like fargate, ecs and so on in aws-cdk-examples/typescript at master · aws-samples/aws-cdk-examples · GitHub, i felt that basic examples where missing. So we created GitHub - tecracer/cdk-templates: Templates for aws cdk
Getting around circular CloudFormation dependencies Several posts complain about the inability of CloudFormation to apply a Lambda event function to an S3 Bucket with an dynamically generated name. The standard UseCase is an S3 Bucket with a Lambda event notification. In this special case the Bucket has a dynamically generated name. This cannot be done by pure CloudFormation! How to work around this circular depency? Let me show you an easy way:
The serverless kingslayer? - Migration from serverless to CDK Last day I have been at a customer and suggested using the CDK for Infrastructure as code. He responded with a huge yes. He has worked his way through the CDK Intro Workshop aws-cdk-examples/typescript at master · aws-samples/aws-cdk-examples · GitHub and wanted to use it. Then we discussed a lambda function. The customer was using the serverless framework - like most of the people.
