Adding Assets to CDK Staging Bucket
Today I discovered that you can deploy arbitrary files to the CDK staging bucket with a human-readable file name! This feature is awesome if you are pre-synthing CDK apps to CloudFormation Templates.
Tag: DevOps
CDK package.json Scripts
I found the following package.json scripts very convenient when managing a complex CDK app. The key is the -- operator, which allows us to append additional parameters.
Speed up CDK Pipelines Deployment
I recently converted a large CDK app to use CDK Pipelines. I LOVE how quickly it was to get working but it generated a UGLY and SLOW pipeline.
Write config.json to S3 with AWS CDK
To make prebuilt SPA installers with CDK I like to keep environment configuration outside of the minified code via a config.json file. This allows me to build the app once and move it between environments and stages.
Fargate with EFS CDK
I struggled WAY too long trying to sort out the permissions for EFS. Turns out, there are 2 layers. The IAM role, and the Posix permissions. Both throw a similar-looking access denied. Finally!
AWS Serverless Workshop at FloridaJS
I had the honor of presenting an AWS Workshop at my local JavaScript User Group - FloridaJS. It was a short session on building serverless web applications on AWS.
My CloudFormation IDE
Writing CloudFormation or SAM templates by hand is very powerful, but can also be quite frustrating without a good IDE setup…
Workshop: Creating Installable, Serverless Apps on AWS (Video)
AWS is taking over the wold. So it’s time we had a workshop to learn it. -Damian Montero, FloridaJS
Assume Role with MFA
CLI Assume Role with MFA (assume-role-mfa.sh)This script will assume a cross-account role using your MFA device and output the credentials into a named profile. 1234567891011121314151617181920212223#!
Assume Cross Account AWS Role
Unlike an embarrassing Facebook post, developers can’t simply say “That wasn’t me, I got hacked” and expect it all to go away… Sarcasm aside, security without passwords is not only convenient, it keeps the password from landing in the wrong hands.