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

  • 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

  • The easiest way to use EFS volumes with ECS

    Finally, AWS released the ECS support for Docker volume drivers and volume plugins. You can now use volume plugins like Rexray or Portworx to automatically mount EBS or EFS volumes. But if you just want to use an EFS volume, there’s an easier way. Mount EFS volumes by using Docker’s...

    September 12, 2018
    in Aws, Ecs

  • First look into AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)

    I have been using CloudFormation since I started using AWS in 2014. It helped me to get an overview of all the different services on AWS. I also like the declarative style to define your infrastructure and let CloudFormation do all the work. Coming from a DataCenter where you had...

    August 17, 2018
    in Aws, Cdk