Category: Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Save money, delete your stacks using Lambdas and interactive Slack messages

Posted on by arpioni

I’ve used AWS Lambdas before, but never have I integrated Slack with Lambdas…until now.  We use Slack a lot, and with it we are adding integrations to improve team communications and visibility.  We also use AWS Cloudformation which allows us to quickly and repeatedly launch entire environments. The templates are independent, which allows developers to Read more about Save money, delete your stacks using Lambdas and interactive Slack messages[…]

AWS – Bootstrap Windows EC2 instance with Chef-Solo

Posted on by Ryan

If you have an environment like we do you, fairly small and few service layers, it may not make sense to provision a Chef Server.  Luckily, we can still get the benefits of using Chef to configure our servers by using the included Chef-Solo.  Chef-Solo will run entirely locally on the instance, therefore we must Read more about AWS – Bootstrap Windows EC2 instance with Chef-Solo[…]