aws-cloudformation-coverage-roadmap VS stripe-cli

Given AWS CloudFormation is AWS's native language and service for infrastructure as code, you will likely find more official quickstarts provided by AWS in the language. In addition to this, AWS Support will probably be more capable of assisting you with issues when you need help. AWS Support is essential for large enterprises, particularly those new to the cloud or slow to adopt. These types of organizations may have a skill gap within their organization regarding their cloud skill set, and in turn, they are more likely to use AWS Enterprise Support.

Today, I will show you how to build Amazon Location Service, which allows you to build location-based applications within your AWS environment using AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) and AWS CloudFormation. I will also show examples of the recently popular CDK Migrate and AWS CloudFormation IaC generator.

AWS CloudFormation: Speed up cloud provisioning with infrastructure as code.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is an important part of any true hosting operation in the public cloud. Each of these platforms has their own IaC solution, e.g. AWS CloudFormation. But they also support popular open-source IaC tools like Pulumi or Terraform. A category of tools that also needs to be discussed is API gateways and other app-specific load balancers. There are applications for internal consumption, which can be called microservices if you have a lot of them. And often microservices use advanced networking options such as a service mesh instead of just the native private network offered by a VPC.

Cloudformation (IaC) does not need to be introduced to anyone, plus if you read the previous blogpost, the terraform provider (CC) we used is based on Cloudformation. Moreover, you will notice a lot of similarities, after all, we are implementing the same scenario, but with a different tool.

AWS Application Composer launched in the AWS Console at re:Invent one year ago, and this re:Invent it expanded to the VS Code IDE as part of the AWS Toolkit - but that’s not the only exciting part. When using App Composer in the IDE, users also get access to a generative AI partner that will help them write infrastructure as code (IaC) for all 1100+ AWS CloudFormation resources that Application Composer now supports.

CloudFormation

Of course, best practices today dictate that we should be deploying our infrastructure as code, using tools such as CloudFormation or Terraform.

If you're provisioning the above resources for the first time, you'll have to either configure Terraform to use specific AWS keys as you won't have OIDC connection yet. In my case, I chose to have those pre-requesites resources in a CloudFormation template and deploy them with StackSets.

I've always found this to be a very useful practice. Many projects have a few core files (or packages / modules / whatever) where most of the changes happen. Being able to familiarize new contributors (or old returning ones) with those quickly really helps the startup time on a project.

I've added architecture files to projects at multiple jobs now [0], [1] and they've been well received. They're not perfect, but they're better than nothing.

[0]: https://github.com/zapier/zapier-platform/pull/324

[1]: https://github.com/stripe/stripe-cli/blob/master/ARCHITECTUR...

Stripe CLI

Before getting started with this, make sure that you have the Stripe CLI installed. Click me

You'll need the Stripe CLI installed.

The easiest way is to use stripe cli. You can download it here.

​ We use CLIs to perform quick actions from the comfort of our terminals and automate recurring tasks. You might use the GitLab CLI to submit your code in a merge request, so the team can review it and include it in the next release, for example. Many other developer platforms like AWS, Stripe, Sentry, and CircleCI offer CLIs as well. ​ Connecting a CLI to your online account often involves generating API access keys in a browser, then pasting those values into the terminal. Those credentials are usually saved in a plaintext config file that gives the CLI persistent access to your account, even after reboots. But if an attacker or process gains access to your system, they have the same level of access to your account that you do. ​ We built 1Password Shell Plugins so you can securely store all of your access keys in encrypted 1Password vaults, rather than on disk. When you use a Shell Plugin for a particular service, access to the associated API keys is restricted to your specific terminal session. ​ Because they're saved in 1Password, you can securely sign in to any CLI with your fingerprint or another form of biometrics. If the service supports it, MFA codes can be filled automatically – so there’s no need to pull out your phone multiple times every day. ​ In fact, there’s no need to type anything. No plaintext, no typing passwords, no hassle – you can stay in the zone and focus on the task at hand. ​

You’re probably looking for this: https://stripe.com/docs/stripe-cli

The Stripe CLI (command line interface) and Stripe for VS Code extension are essential tools when you’re building, testing and managing your Stripe integration. In this article you’ll learn about the powerful features of the Stripe CLI and how you can leverage those features both on the command line and via the VS Code extension.

You can test locally with the stripe CLI tool https://stripe.com/docs/stripe-cli, that sends the webhook info through localhost.