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This week's topics

• AWS CICD in GitLab-CI

• Some ok announcements I guess

• Greenfield Organizations Course Details

AWS CICD with GitLab-CI

It’s official. I’m a YouTube star. Someone else actually wanted to have me on their channel to talk about something.

Two weeks ago I shared that I recorded a video about a CICD Pipeline that I use and that has evolved in the last couple of years. The full video is for a fellow AWS Community Builders’ Youtube Channel about CI and CD on Amazon Web Service (AWS).

This week, at the time of this newsletter release, you should be able to watch the interview and demo here: https://youtu.be/xWmnURdTJgs

• IdP & Role Deployment: https://gitlab.com/rwickit/cicd/aws-gitlab-cicd

• CloudFormation

  • Remote CI: https://gitlab.com/rwickit/cicd/cfn

  • Demo Project: https://gitlab.com/rwickit/demos/ci-and-cd-on-amazon-web-service-aws/gitlab-aws-cloudformation

• Terraform

  • Remote CI: https://gitlab.com/rwickit/cicd/tf

  • Demo Project: https://gitlab.com/rwickit/demos/ci-and-cd-on-amazon-web-service-aws/gitlab-aws-terraform

This solution has a long way to go. I’d be interested in your feedback or PRs for recommended changes.

A GitHub Workflow equivalent can be found here:

• Blog: https://rwick.it/automate-aws-resource-review-and-deployments-with-github-actions

• Code: https://github.com/rosswickman/aws-automation-workflows

Announcement(s)

Nothing of note that I’m tracking this week. But here are a few related announcements.

• Use backups to recover from security incidents

• New AWS Security Blog homepage

• AWS now allows you to bring your Windows 11 licenses to Amazon WorkSpaces

• AWS Security Hub is now available in three additional AWS Regions

Greenfield Course Update

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