CI/CD – Noise

Combining Snyk’s Insight with Amazon Q Developer’s Assistance to Streamline Secure Development

Omar Faruk — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 18:40:32 +0000

Developers today face a constant balancing act – building new features and functionality while also ensuring the security and reliability of their codebase. Two powerful tools, Snyk and Amazon Q Developer, can work in tandem to help developers navigate this challenge with greater efficiency and efficacy. Snyk is a leading developer security platform that empowers […]

Announcing General Availability of GitLab Duo with Amazon Q

Ryan Bachman — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 13:36:38 +0000

Announcing General Availability of GitLab Duo with Amazon Q Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of GitLab Duo with Amazon Q. This new offering is an integrated product, bringing together GitLab’s DevSecOps platform with Amazon Q’s generative AI capabilities. Gitlab Duo with Amazon Q embeds Amazon Q agent capabilities directly in GitLab’s DevSecOps […]

Deploying and Managing Application Configurations using AWS AppConfig

Aditya Ranjan — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 13:49:02 +0000

The management of configurations across multiple environments and tenants poses a significant challenge in modern software development. Organizations must balance maintaining distinct settings for various environments while accommodating the unique needs of different tenants in multi-tenant architectures. This complexity is compounded by requirements for consistency, version control, security, and efficient troubleshooting. AWS AppConfig offers a […]

How GitHub uses CodeQL to secure GitHub

Brandon Stewart — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 17:00:04 +0000

How GitHub’s Product Security Engineering team manages our CodeQL implementation at scale and how you can, too.

The post How GitHub uses CodeQL to secure GitHub appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Using Semantic Versioning to Simplify Release Management

Brandon Kindred — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 18:22:46 +0000

Any organization that manages software libraries and applications needs a standardized way to catalog, reference, import, fix bugs and update the versions of those libraries and applications. Semantic Versioning enables developers, testers, and project managers to have a more standardized process for committing code and managing different versions. It’s benefits also extend beyond development teams […]

Accelerate Serverless Streamlit App Deployment with Terraform

Kevon Mayers — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 05:07:23 +0000

Graphic created by Kevon Mayers. Introduction As customers increasingly seek to harness the power of generative AI (GenAI) and machine learning to deliver cutting-edge applications, the need for a flexible, intuitive, and scalable development platform has never been greater. In this landscape, Streamlit has emerged as a standout tool, making it easy for developers to […]

Terraform CI/CD and testing on AWS with the new Terraform Test Framework

Kevon Mayers — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 23:45:18 +0000

In this blog post, we will show you how to validate Terraform modules and how to automate the process using a Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline.

Your DevOps and Developer Productivity guide to re:Invent 2023

Anubhav Rao — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 18:13:07 +0000

Your DevOps and Developer Productivity guide to re:Invent 2023 ICYMI – AWS re:Invent is less than a week away! We can’t wait to join thousands of builders in person and virtually for another exciting event. Still need to save your spot? You can register here. With so much planned for the DevOps and Developer Productivity […]

Blue/Green deployments using AWS CDK Pipelines and AWS CodeDeploy

Luiz Decaro — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 19:17:09 +0000

Customers often ask for help with implementing Blue/Green deployments to Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) using AWS CodeDeploy. Their use cases usually involve cross-Region and cross-account deployment scenarios. These requirements are challenging enough on their own, but in addition to those, there are specific design decisions that need to be considered when using CodeDeploy. […]

How GitHub uses GitHub Actions and Actions larger runners to build and test GitHub.com

Max Wagner — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 17:30:14 +0000

Recently, we’ve been working to make our CI experience better by leveraging the newly released GitHub feature, Actions larger runners, to run our CI.

The post How GitHub uses GitHub Actions and Actions larger runners to build and test GitHub.com appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

How to add notifications and manual approval to an AWS CDK Pipeline

Jehu Gray — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 16:32:43 +0000

A deployment pipeline typically comprises several stages such as dev, test, and prod, which ensure that changes undergo testing before reaching the production environment. To improve the reliability and stability of release processes, DevOps teams must review Infrastructure as Code (IaC) changes before applying them in production. As a result, implementing a mechanism for notification and manual approval […]

Deploy serverless applications in a multicloud environment using Amazon CodeCatalyst

Deepak Kovvuri — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 14:41:53 +0000

Amazon CodeCatalyst is an integrated service for software development teams adopting continuous integration and deployment practices into their software development process. CodeCatalyst puts the tools you need all in one place. You can plan work, collaborate on code, and build, test, and deploy applications by leveraging CodeCatalyst Workflows. Introduction In the first post of the […]

Deploy container applications in a multicloud environment using Amazon CodeCatalyst

Pawan Shrivastava — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 14:41:24 +0000

In the previous post of this blog series, we saw how organizations can deploy workloads to virtual machines (VMs) in a hybrid and multicloud environment. This post shows how organizations can address the requirement of deploying containers, and containerized applications to hybrid and multicloud platforms using Amazon CodeCatalyst. CodeCatalyst is an integrated DevOps service which […]

How to deploy workloads in a multicloud environment with AWS developer tools

Brent Van Wynsberge — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 13:04:08 +0000

As organizations embrace cloud computing as part of “cloud first” strategy, and migrate to the cloud, some of the enterprises end up in a multicloud environment. We see that enterprise customers get the best experience, performance and cost structure when they choose a primary cloud provider. However, for a variety of reasons, some organizations end […]

Best practices to optimize your Amazon EC2 Spot Instances usage

Sheila Busser — Mon, 15 May 2023 15:30:36 +0000

This blog post is written by Pranaya Anshu, EC2 PMM, and Sid Ambatipudi, EC2 Compute GTM Specialist. Amazon EC2 Spot Instances are a powerful tool that thousands of customers use to optimize their compute costs. The National Football League (NFL) is an example of customer using Spot Instances, leveraging 4000 EC2 Spot Instances across more […]

Multi-branch pipeline management and infrastructure deployment using AWS CDK Pipelines

Iris Kraja — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 21:04:05 +0000

This post describes how to use the AWS CDK Pipelines module to follow a Gitflow development model using AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK). Software development teams often follow a strict branching strategy during a solutions development lifecycle. Newly-created branches commonly need their own isolated copy of infrastructure resources to develop new features. CDK Pipelines […]

Build, Test and Deploy ETL solutions using AWS Glue and AWS CDK based CI/CD pipelines

Puneet Babbar — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 17:30:07 +0000

AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it easy to discover, prepare, and combine data for analytics, machine learning (ML), and application development. It’s serverless, so there’s no infrastructure to set up or manage. This post provides a step-by-step guide to build a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline using AWS […]

6 strategic ways to level up your CI/CD pipeline

Damian Brady — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 16:15:27 +0000

From incorporating accessibility testing to implementing blue-green deployment models, here are six practical and strategic ways to improve your CI/CD pipeline.

Jenkins high availability and disaster recovery on AWS

James Bland — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 12:56:58 +0000

We often hear from customers about their challenges architecting Jenkins for scale and high availability (HA). Jenkins was originally built as a continuous integration (CI) system to test software before it was committed to a repository. Since its beginning, Jenkins has grown out of necessity versus grand master plan. Developers who extended Jenkins favored speed […]

Integrating with GitHub Actions – CI/CD pipeline to deploy a Web App to Amazon EC2

Mahesh Biradar — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 14:48:03 +0000

Many Organizations adopt DevOps Practices to innovate faster by automating and streamlining the software development and infrastructure management processes. Beyond cultural adoption, DevOps also suggests following certain best practices and Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) is among the important ones to start with. CI/CD practice reduces the time it takes to release new software […]