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Discover how to integrate AWS CodeBuild with Jenkins, with full working examples.

AWS is the leading cloud provider with 32% of the market share. It offers highly available and cost effective services, so it’s no surprise companies are migrating from on-premises to AWS in droves. As developers, we’re often caught in the middle of this, being asked to re-architect software to new models such as containers or serverless. Sometimes the reasons for this seem unjustified given the huge changes required, but a lack of knowledge of AWS can hold you back from engaging in discussion....

The default ECS deployment type is called rolling update. With this simple approach, running ECS tasks are replaced with new ECS tasks. You control this process with the deployment configuration, where you define the minimum and maximum number of tasks allowed during a deployment. Through this mechanism you can ensure enough tasks are running to service your traffic, and likewise you’re not overspending by running too many. To understand the deployment process we’ll take the following simple setup as an example....

Creating an S3 bucket is easy enough, but to apply the principle of least privilege properly we need to understand how to create the right permissions for specific IAM identities. This might be straightforward if it weren’t for the multiple ways to configure permissions in S3, each having its own rules and edge cases. This article helps you navigate this minefield, with details not only of how the S3 permissions work, but also how you can implement some common real-world scenarios such as S3 bucket access from another AWS account....

The pros and cons of Jenkins vs. AWS CodeBuild, specifically related to building applications which run in Docker.

Setup Jenkins to access resources in another AWS account using one of these 4 assume role methods.

Discover how much Fargate Spot could save you on your AWS bill with this price comparison between 100 Fargate Spot and 100 Fargate containers. Did you know you could save money in AWS by switching from Fargate to Fargate Spot? If you’re using ECS, Fargate Spot offers significant cost reductions by using spare capacity in the AWS cloud. But just how much could you save? AWS say up to 70%, but we’re going to put that to the test with a head-to-head price comparison between 100 Fargate Spot and 100 Fargate containers running over 24 hours....

Learn to add SonarQube analysis and quality gate stages to a Jenkins pipeline.

If you’ve ever deployed Spring Boot behind a load balancer, you might be aware of issues coming from differences between the request into the load balancer and the request into your application. These requests will often have a different protocol, host, or port. If Spring Boot isn’t correctly setup it can lead to all sorts of mayhem, such as generating incorrect URLs for you application. In this article you’ll discover how to make use of the X-Forwarded headers passed from a load balancer to your Spring Boot application, to help your application generate URLs correctly based on the originating request....