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1. Introduction CloudFormation is a useful tool when working with AWS to define your infrastructure as code, or at least a YAML or JSON template. These templates allow us to make almost any change imaginable within the AWS ecosystem. In this article we’ll take a look at how to practice the principle of least privilege with CloudFormation, with a working example making use of the CloudFormation service role. This will allow the CloudFormation stack to make changes by assuming that role, completely separately from the user or role who initiates the change in the first place....

1. Introduction We’re all using Docker containers these days to do all sorts of great stuff, but it’s not always obvious how best to automate the building of images and embed good repeatable processes into our projects. In this article you’ll discover one of the best approaches I’ve found to automate Docker in your project. It’s to create tasks for the building of images and running of containers within your Gradle project....