Building a Docker container for easy SSH into Opsworks Stacks

Part of the concept behind Opsworks is the ability to create and destroy instances dynamically. If your instances are configured by Chef recipes all the way from AMI to processing production workload, this is probably something you do pretty regularly.

But this probably means that the IP addresses behind your instances change regularly. At some point you might get tired of constantly going back to the Opsworks console to get an IP address, I know I did.

AWS Codepipeline: Alert on Stage Failure

We've been using AWS Codepipeline for some time now and for the most part it's a great managed service. Easy to get started with and pretty simple to use.

That being said, it does lack some features out of the box that most CICD systems have ready for you. The one I'll be tackling today is alerting on a stage failure.

AWS Serverless Application Model: Here we go!

AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) was released a couple months ago. The punch line of this new release in my mind is the ability to version your lambda function code and your cloudformation template next to each other. The idea being to have completely packaged serverless application that deploy from a single repository.

Lambda Logging to Cloudwatch

If you're an AWS user, either professionally or personally, I can't encourage you enough to try it out. Lambda is the ability to run code in a few different languages (currently Python, Node, and Java) without worrying about the server environment it runs on.