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aws-cdk-rfcs
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What's Next for CDK? 👀
This was the most voted RFC.
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Build AWS Serverless Scheduled Tasks with Amazon EventBridge and CDK
The scheduler is a refined and improved version of the older rules mechanism. So, why would you use the older rule mechanism for scheduled tasks? I don’t see any reason other than the better CDK constructs support (which is only temporary, see this PR).
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Building a Robust Serverless Messaging Service with Amazon EventBridge Pipes and CDK
CDK released the L1 construct for Pipes in v2.55 back in December 2022. Unfortunately, the L2 construct is still in progress, so we will have to manually specify most of the CloudFormation template but bear with me, it won’t be too painful. The community is working on an L2 construct; you can find the issue on GitHub here.
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Regain control over orphaned resources with CDK
The experimental cdk feature is described here. The rfc is still open so you might be able to track or influence how it will stabilize.
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Serverless Weather Reporting with AWS Step Functions and CDK
More info on L1 vs L2 constructs here. I plan to keep an eye on this open RFC.
- Various cdk assets and implications of deleting them
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Moving to CDK pipelines from not using pipelines
You could hardcode the stack names. But this is one of the biggest limitations CDK still has: no easy way yet to refactor names like this. There's an open RFC, but it isn't moving much.
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Create Serverless Data Pipeline Using AWS CDKÂ (Python)
It is not very convenient to delete some resources manually and there are several discussions with AWS developers to fix it.
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Testing the Async Cloud with AWS CDK
It's worth mentioning that AWS CDK already has an RFC for integration testing so we might end up with something even better. In the meantime, if you are serious about integration testing, time to give AWS CDK and Provider Framework a look!
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Ping Me! (Intro: IaC and Prep Work)
One apparent limitation of the CDK is that, at least for the nonce, it can only be used with AWS (there are two notable projects in the work right now that will greatly expand CDK's reach: cdk8s and cdktf). With Terraform you can use choose from a plethora of providers. Hell, I was able to set up my home network running on Unifi Dream Machine using Terraform. How cool is that?!
Ansible
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Ansible Basics: Your First HelloWorld Playbook 🚀
Ansible is an open-source IT automation tool that simplifies application deployment, cloud provisioning, and configuration management across diverse environments. It uses a declarative language to describe the desired state of the system, and then takes the necessary actions to achieve that state. Ansible has become incredibly popular due to its simplicity, agentless architecture, and extensive community support. Document: ansible.com, ansible basics
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Grant Kubernetes Pods Access to AWS Services Using OpenID Connect
Ansible v2.16
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Set up an Automation script with Ansible
Ansible is a tool used to help manage software automation processes, configuration management across machines, deployment as well as remote execution of commands and scripts. In sports, Ansible operates as the coach of your team by providing strategies (playbooks), and actions, and ensuring the smooth execution of tasks across your infrastructure, just like a coach guides and directs players (Servers)during a game.
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Interesting Uses of Ansible's ternary filter
They support for-if from python, too: https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/3.1.x/templates/#loop-f... but I haven't tried the "recursive" keyword to know if ansible supports that. I say "ansible supports that" because they don't just drop jinja2 into ansible and call it a draw, they have a bunch of custom execution integrations: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.16.3/lib/ansible/...
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The 2024 Web Hosting Report
To manage a VM, you can use something as simple as just manual actions over SSH, or can use tools like Ansible, Hashicorp's Packer and Terraform or other automations. For an app where there is minimal load and security/reliability concern, VMs are still a great option that provide a lot of value for the buck
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A Journey to Find an Ultimate Development Environment
In this article's context, it is simply a tool that provides a declarative way to automate your machine/OS to configure the development machine as you want (install package, modify the configuration, etc). Examples of these tools are Ansible, Puppet, etc.
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The Director of "Toy Story" Also Drew the BSD Daemon Logo
Now we're getting more tangential, but for years, Ansible releases were named for Van Halen songs (see old Changelog here: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v1.8.4/CHANGELOG.md)
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Running stateful workloads on Kubernetes with Rook Ceph
In the lab to follow, we'll quickly provision a 3-node kubeadm cluster (1 master, 2 workers) on the cloud provider of your choice using an automation stack comprised of OpenTofu and Ansible, then deploy Rook Ceph using the official Helm charts and confirm that we are now able to successfully create CSI volume snapshots from PVCs by reusing the MinIO example from our last article.
- Looking for a way to remote in to K's of raspberry pi's...
- ansible builder collections path
What are some alternatives?
websocat - Command-line client for WebSockets, like netcat (or curl) for ws:// with advanced socat-like functions
Cloud-Init - unofficial mirror of Ubuntu's cloud-init
jsii - jsii allows code in any language to naturally interact with JavaScript classes. It is the technology that enables the AWS Cloud Development Kit to deliver polyglot libraries from a single codebase!
pyinfra - pyinfra automates infrastructure using Python. It’s fast and scales from one server to thousands. Great for ad-hoc command execution, service deployment, configuration management and more.
Cypress - Fast, easy and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser.
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
cdk-eventbridge-socket - CDK construct that creates a WebSocket endpoint for you for any EventBridge rule you are interested in. (Built for debugging + testing )
Fabric - Simple, Pythonic remote execution and deployment.
aws-cdk - The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code
cloudinit - Official upstream for the cloud-init: cloud instance initialization
aws-testing-library - Chai (https://chaijs.com) and Jest (https://jestjs.io/) assertions for testing services built with aws
(R)?ex - Rex, the friendly automation framework