Automated integration testing of a python AWS Config rule is a challenging, but necessary undertaking to ensure that the rule provides accurate results. Creating resources, waiting for the result to show up in AWS Config, testing the results and tearing down the resources in best case circumstances takes several minutes. And it can take many Read more…
Editor’s Note: Stelligent has been a remote-first company since 2013. All of our employees work from home, providing cloud consulting services to the public sector and corporations all over the United States. We love our remote culture, but the arrangement has its challenges. We’re publishing a series of articles to share our insights with everyone Read more…
config-lint: Up and Running How to leverage config-lint to validate JSON and YAML based configurations. Configuration Validation with config-lint Stelligent config-lint is an open source command line tool to lint configuration file in a variety of formats, including JSON, YAML, Terraform, and Kubernetes. Config-lint offers a lightweight method to provide custom validation for unique compliance Read more…
Do More with Less Today DevOps can mean different things to different people. At Stelligent we consider DevOps to be a collection of principles and practices for delivering software faster, more efficiently, and more securely. When implemented effectively, these principles and practices will make your team more efficient and effective, allowing you to do more Read more…
This blog post is the second in a three-part series about the Visual Studio Code Remote – Containers extension. The first post went over the benefits and general concepts of using a container for development work on a project. This post will go over some instructions on how to implement this for a project, basic Read more…
Test Automation for Integrating with External Services Developing test automation code for an interface to an “external” service is always a difficult proposition. There is a spectrum of techniques for developing reproducible tests against an external service. On one end of the spectrum are “mocking” techniques and on the other far end of the spectrum Read more…
Code Complexity Metrics When a professional software developer writes code, they measure the complexity of the code they write. The contrapositive holds true as well that those who don’t measure the complexity of their code are not professional. There are a variety of code complexity metrics available to the professional developer. The “better” metrics are Read more…
Editor’s Note: Stelligent has been a remote-first company since 2013. All of our employees work from home, providing cloud consulting services to the public sector and corporations all over the United States. We love our remote culture, but the arrangement has its challenges. We’re publishing a series of articles to share our insights with everyone Read more…
Editor’s Note: Stelligent has been a remote-first company since 2013. All of our employees work from home, providing cloud consulting services to the public sector and corporations all over the United States. We love our remote culture, but the arrangement has its challenges. We’re publishing a series of articles to share our insights with everyone Read more…
This blog post will be part one of a three-part series on Visual Studios Code Remote – Containers. Prior knowledge of Visual Studios Code editor is recommended to better understand the items discussed in this series; more information can be found here. Part one will explain the general concepts of utilizing VS Code Remote – Read more…