New Pluralsight Course on AWS and DevOps!

I just published a new Pluralsight course! If you want to learn more about DevOps tools and AWS then check it out: Continuous Delivery and Automation on AWS for DevOps Engineers! Remember, you can get access to Pluralsight for free on me!

The title is a mouthful, I know, but the course will take you through a ton of great information on different AWS DevOps services. Let’s look at some of what I’ll cover in the course!

Extending CloudFormation with Custom Resources

Have you ever tried to do something with CloudFormation but just needed a little something more to get the job done? In those cases I’ve started using CloudFormation custom resources. These resources essentially allow you to extend the use of CloudFormation templates whenever you create, update or delete a stack.

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how you could use these custom resources to provision your DynamoDB tables with some data. This can be useful if you’d like to run additional testing on your AWS environment that requires actual data inside of the environment.