Blog posts tagged #tasks-for-aws

Tasks for AWS 2.12

Steffen Opel on February 16, 2017

The Utoolity team is pleased to present Tasks for AWS 2.12 – this release adds a new task to deploy and operate AWS Step Functions state machines to enable coordination of components of distributed applications and microservices using visual workflows, adds support for Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) placement policies, and adds support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk application lifecycle management. You can now create/start/stop/delete AWS Step Functions state machines, specify placement policies when registering Amazon ECS Task Definitions, creating Amazon ECS Services, and running Amazon ECS Tasks, and specify application lifecycle policies when creating an AWS Elastic Beanstalk Application.

#release #tasks-for-aws #bamboo

EBS Snapshot Scheduler

Steffen Opel on October 16, 2016

Utoolity maintains a curated AWS Answers collection with AWS solutions related to Utoolity apps in the Atlassian Marketplace. Learn about this recent AWS solution in How can I take automatic Amazon EBS snapshots?:

#aws #aws-solution #amazon-ebs #snapshot #automation #tasks-for-aws

EC2 Scheduler

Steffen Opel on September 16, 2016

Utoolity maintains a curated AWS Answers collection with AWS solutions related to Utoolity apps in the Atlassian Marketplace. Learn about this recent AWS solution in How do I automatically start and stop my Amazon EC2 instances?:

#aws #aws-solution #tasks-for-aws #amazon-ec2 #instance #automation

Tasks for AWS 2.11

Steffen Opel on July 28, 2016

The Utoolity team is pleased to present Tasks for AWS 2.11 – this release adds new actions for AWS CloudFormation change sets to enable Continuous Delivery approval workflows, and adds support for using IAM roles with Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) tasks. You can now create/execute/delete change sets for AWS CloudFormation Stacks, and specify IAM roles when registering Amazon ECS Task Definitions and running/starting Amazon ECS Tasks.

#release #tasks-for-aws #bamboo

Bitbucket Pipelines Provides Continuous Delivery within Atlassian’s Bitbucket Cloud

Steffen Opel on June 28, 2016

I have published an InfoQ news post about Atlassian's efforts to provide an integrated Continuous Delivery pipeline for its Git and Mercurial hosting service Bitbucket Cloud:

#news #infoq #atlassian #bitbucket #pipelines #bamboo #continuous-delivery #devops #tasks-for-aws

AWS Multiple Account Billing Strategy

Steffen Opel on June 26, 2016

Utoolity maintains a curated AWS Answers collection with AWS solutions related to Utoolity apps in the Atlassian Marketplace. Learn about this recent AWS solution in How do I manage multiple AWS accounts for billing purposes?:

#aws #aws-solution #account #billing #tasks-for-aws #identity-federation-for-aws #automation-with-aws

Tasks for AWS 2.10

Steffen Opel on February 18, 2016

The Utoolity team is pleased to present Tasks for AWS 2.10 – this release adds an Amazon ECR Credentials Variables task to Bamboo for providing temporary Amazon EC2 Container Registry authentication credentials to other tools by injecting them via variables into AWS unaware tasks like the Bamboo Docker task, supports additional deployment options for the Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS), and adds support for assuming another IAM role from EC2 instance profile credentials used by an Elastic Bamboo agent.

#release #tasks-for-aws #bamboo

Tasks for AWS 2.9

Steffen Opel on November 30, 2015

The Utoolity team is pleased to present Tasks for AWS 2.9 – this release adds new tasks to deploy and operate AWS OpsWorks apps, adds new actions to support AWS Lambda versions and aliases, and adds a ZIP archive option for artifact uploads to Amazon S3. You can now create/update/delete OpsWorks Apps, run app and stack commands with OpsWorks Deployments, publish new Lambda Function versions and create/update/delete Lambda Function aliases, and upload ZIP archives as S3 Objects.

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AWS Simplifies Resource Access with VPC Endpoints, Initially Supporting S3

Steffen Opel on August 31, 2015

I have published an InfoQ news post about the AWS team's efforts to simplify management and auditing of VPC network traffic by skipping the public internet:

#news #infoq #aws #amazon-vpc #amazon-s3 #tasks-for-aws

Tasks for AWS 2.8

Steffen Opel on August 26, 2015

The Utoolity team is pleased to present Tasks for AWS 2.8 – this release adds new tasks to deploy and operate AWS Lambda functions and event source mappings, and can optionally tag Amazon ECS Tasks. You can now create/update/delete/invoke/entitle AWS Lambda functions, and create/update/delete AWS Lambda event source mappings.

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Tasks for AWS 2.7

Steffen Opel on May 05, 2015

The Utoolity team is pleased to present Tasks for AWS 2.7 – this release adds new tasks to deploy Docker containers to the Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS), and supports succeeding a build for non existing AWS CloudFormation stacks. You can now create/update/delete Amazon ECS clusters and services, run/start/stop Amazon ECS tasks, and register Amazon ECS task definitions.

#release #tasks-for-aws #bamboo

Amazon EC2 Gains Two-Minute Warning for Spot Instance Termination

Steffen Opel on January 31, 2015

I have published an InfoQ news post about the AWS team's efforts to widen applicable use cases for its low-cost EC2 instance pool:

#news #infoq #aws #amazon-ec2 #spot-instances #termination #notification #tasks-for-aws

Tasks for AWS 2.6

Steffen Opel on January 20, 2015

The Utoolity team is pleased to present Tasks for AWS 2.6 – this release adds new tasks to deploy code to Amazon EC2 instances with AWS CodeDeploy, and supports succeeding a build when Amazon EC2 resource filters aren't matching any resources. You can now create/stop/prepare AWS CodeDeploy deployments, and create/update/delete AWS CodeDeploy applications and deployment groups.

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Tasks for AWS 2.5

Steffen Opel on November 10, 2014

The Utoolity team is pleased to present Tasks for AWS 2.5 – this release adds support for IAM Roles (both for Amazon EC2 and the AssumeRole API), adds reuse of existing template and change of SNS topic on CloudFormation updates, and improves CloudFormation template parameter management by converting to JSON format.

#release #tasks-for-aws #bamboo

AWS Adds Hooks Into Expanded Auto Scaling Lifecycle

Steffen Opel on September 30, 2014

I have published an InfoQ news post about the AWS team's efforts to increase operational control over auto-scaled EC2 instances:

#news #infoq #aws #aws-auto-scaling #lifecycle #hooks #amazon-ec2 #tasks-for-aws

Tasks for AWS 2.4

Steffen Opel on August 15, 2014

The Utoolity team is pleased to present Tasks for AWS 2.4 – this release adds shared AWS security credentials management by integrating with Identity Federation for AWS (Bamboo), persists credentials of type Inline through the Bamboo EncryptionService API, and adds support for Windows Server 2012 R2 and Server Core solution stacks in AWS Elastic Beanstalk environments.

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