Walk Throughs

Ordinary Experts achieves AWS CloudFormation Service Delivery Designation

Ordinary Experts attains AWS CloudFormation Service Delivery Designation - showcasing our proven ability to deliver advanced CloudFormation based AWS solutions.

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Evolution of a S3 Bucket in CloudFormation

In this blog, we'll walk through setting up a S3 bucket with CloudFormation. We'll start with a simple resource and work up to a more real-life example with support for versioning, encryption, and preventing any objects from becoming public.

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Static S3 Website with CICD - Walkthrough

We have developed a Terraform module for AWS which provisions a static website that: is serverless, enforces SSL, encrypts data at rest and in transit, is globally distributed, supports restricting access to website by IP, sets up nice DNS entries, deploys new changes when commits are pushed to a CodeCommit branch, clears the CloudFront cache after deployments, sends notifications on successful and failed deploys, supports site generation frameworks like Hugo or Jekyll, supports URLs of subdirectories that do not have index.html specified, supports custom error pages, and supports debug mode. Check it out!

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Better CodePipeline S3 Source Metadata

By setting the 'codepipeline-artifact-revision-summary' metadata key when uploading a build artifact to S3, you can get nicer source metadata information from AWS CodePipeline.

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Git Flow, Semantic Versioning, and CHANGELOG.md, oh my!

In this post, we discuss Git Flow, Semantic Versioning, and Keep a changelog, and then provide a complete walk-through of how we would apply them to a typical software development project.

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