Philipps Blog

With assets, the AWS CDK provides an easy way to build Docker images based on a Dockerfile. But sometimes, Docker images are built natively by other tools (e.g. jib). How can they be integrated as native container image assets into your stack? Since version 1.113.0 it’s possible to use tarballs...

Most of the time, CDK hides it very well that behind the scenes a CloudFormation template is synthesized and used for deployment. But sometimes it’s necessary to have a CloudFormation template on S3. Think about StackSets or ServiceCatalog products. As CDK user, you might want to use BucketDeployment and think...

There are many use cases where you want to allow only authenticated users on your website. For example internal CI/CD tools, monitoring tools, or documentation sites. Application Load Balancer (ALB) provides a managed way to authenticate users either by Cognito or OIDC. Unfortunately, this topic does not get many attentions...

In the last years, Docker Hub became the the world’s largest library and community for container images. But if you use it wrong it can have negative effects on your availability and cause some unnecessary costs. To address this, I created a high-level CDK Construct which can be used to...

Being able to continuously deploy your application is an important part of your success. For ECS based applications there are not only multiple ways to deploy but also several options like container health checks, grace periods, container dependencies, and ALB health checks to adjust the behavior. The goal of this...