Quick Recap Let’s quickly take stock on where we are in our DevOps journey. In Part 4, we talked about how to deploy your packaged code: For reference, this is where we are on our map:

Quick Recap Let’s quickly take stock on where we are in our DevOps journey. In Intro, we talked about the DevOps culture and the foundations required: In Part 1, we discussed how to properly lay the foundation for future code deployment. In Part 2, we talked about how to keep your deployed…

Quick Recap In Intro, we talked about the DevOps culture and the foundations required: In Part 1, we discussed how to properly lay the foundation for future code deployments: In Part 2, we talked about how to keep your deployed code organized: Here, we’ll talk about how to package your code for…

Quick Recap Let’s quickly recap where we are. In short, this series of posts tells a story. And that story is learning how to take an idea and turn it into money, as quickly as possible — the essence of the modern DevOps movement. Or, more specifically, how to build a fully…

NOTE: this is Part 2 of a multi-part series. For intro, please click here. Quick Recap In the previous section, I argued the job of DevOps / Cloud Engineering is to build fully automated, digital pipelines that move code from a developer’s machine to production. Now, to do this job effectively requires…

NOTE: This series has last been updated in December 2022. This part is an overview of a multi-part series. Start here for a brief intro to DevOps or skip directly to Part 1 to start your journey. Part 1 is here. Target Audience Are you a developer looking to shift your career towards a more DevOps model? Are you are a…

Let’s do a quick recap. In Part 4 we configured our Kinesis Analytics application and hooked it up to our Kinesis Stream from Part 3. In turn, the Kinesis Stream sends our VPC Flow Logs to the Kinesis Application created above. …

Now that we have our Kinesis Stream configured in Part 3, let’s hook up a Kinesis Analytics application to it. For reference, it’s the “Kinesis Analytics Anomaly Detection” box on the right:

To recap Part 2, we are setting up a pipeline to capture and stream all of our VPC Flow Logs, for long-term archival and immediate anomaly detection. In other words, we are building the stuff in red: a pipeline that accepts our VPC Flow Logs as input, analyses the stream…