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Problem I recently encountered an informational message on GitLab. I had used almost all the 400 minutes that the free tier provides for GitLab runners. I have previously run GitLab runners locally using Docker, however I wanted something to run in the cloud. Setup vpc-with-nat-and-instance-connect.yaml 3. Create a test instance in the new VPC and […]
This project will get the Flask fiance and savings calculator up and running on AWS from scratch. There are a few prerequisites required before hand, such as AWS CLI access to your account. The containers repo used is also private and therefore there is an access token that needs to be created in the repo. […]
In my previous post, I have talked about deploying a CloudFormation nested stack. Here I will discuss how I made that nested stack work and the differences between a nested stack and cross-stack references. Multi-Stack Architecture Most simple projects will use a single CloudFormation stack. This has all the resources together in the same stack. […]
This post follows on from the previous post, CloudFormation Nested Stacks With Git Sync & a GitLab Pipeline. This post will detail all the steps now they have been fully worked out and tested using GitLab and CloudFormation. GitLab Pipeline Overview Changes are made to the filesChanges are pushed to repoPipeline for merge request creation […]