Philipps Blog

Living in Bavaria. Working in the Cloud. AWS Container Hero

  • Rapid Docker on AWS

    What’s the best way to run containers on AWS? “Rapid Docker on AWS”, the latest book from Andreas and Michael Wittig gives an opinionated answer. I had the honour to write the foreword and now I want to share it with you: Foreword When Solomon Hykes presented Docker for the...

    October 7, 2019
    in Aws, Ecs

  • Hey CDK, How can I write even less code?

    After seeing some demos or trying out the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), many questions arise. How can I migrate? What’s about my existing resources? What is the Context about? And so on. This is the third part of a series ‘Hey CDK’ How can I migrate my existing CloudFormation...

    October 1, 2019
    in Aws, Cdk

  • Hey CDK, how can I reference existing resources?

    After seeing some demos or trying out the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), many questions arise. How can I migrate? What’s about my existing resources? What is the Context about? And so on. Watch my talk at re:Invent 2020 The journey of an AWS CloudFormation template to AWS CDK This...

    September 20, 2019
    in Aws, Cdk

  • Hey CDK, how can I migrate my existing CloudFormation templates?

    After seeing some demos or trying out the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), many questions arise. How can I migrate? What’s about my existing resources? What is the Context about? And so on. Watch my talk at re:Invent 2020 The journey of an AWS CloudFormation template to AWS CDK Together...

    September 11, 2019
    in Aws, Cdk

  • Construct your own CDK Construct Library

    As I wrote in the AWS Blog, the biggest advantage of the AWS CDK for me is that you can write your own Constructs and then easily share them using existing package managers. This guide should help you to set up your own CDK Library and how to share your...

    March 26, 2019
    in Aws, Cdk