Using cfn-lint to validate IAM Resources in AWS

Highly recommended for any automation engineer who wants to control their Cloudformation via a pipeline.

Every Cloud(Front) has a silver lining

A deep dive into some of the different options when configuring CloudFront to get the best out of it for your application.

Creating password-protected static websites in S3

Hosting static websites in S3 is a well-understood domain; but what happens when you want to password-protect it? It’s a static website – there’s no webserver, so you can’t do password-based access control. Or can you? Read on to learn how.

CloudFormation Deep Dive

There are a few key criteria I look for in CloudFormation - If I’m in a multi-account strategy then I must be able to deploy the CloudFormation in all accounts and/or regions. Additionally I must be able to stand up multiple copies of the same stack in the same VPC and account and/or regions.

Python as a cloud glue language

Let’s look at adding Python to your cloud development toolbox to increase reliability and dependability of your development and operations practices.

Disrupting an industry to help the little guys grow

How iRexchange leverage AWS to rapidly bring a nimble, game-changing platform to market.

Scaling AWS ECS services with Alarms, Target tracking & CloudFormation

The topic of ECS autoscaling is a vast area of heated discussions and broken dreams.

Test Driven Infrastructure

My presentation and InSpec demonstration at LastConf 2018 Melbourne.

How to debug AWS Application Load Balancers with minimal colourful vituperations

Jenkins as a Service

An introduction to deploying an autoscaled Jenkins cluster on AWS ECS using code all the way down.