pipeline

Cross build your docker images

Now that ARM is getting bigger and AWS offering compute on ARM for bargain prices I was wondering if it would be feasible to prepare most of my projects for a platform shift to ARM. The tool I like to use is buildx at the moment it is still experimental but I’m having great success with it so far. Docker Buildx is a CLI plugin that extends the docker command with the full support of the features provided by Moby BuildKit builder toolkit.

Display AWS Cloudformation logs in pipelines

Using cloudformation is great, it gives you insane super powers but there are some small things that annoy me when using it in pipelines. My biggest issue is that it is not displaying the steps it takes in kind of real time’ish to stdout, so that’s where the following snippet will help. The code What the output looks like [ { "StackId": "arn:aws:cloudformation:eu-west-1:368341477005:stack/tech-blog/2b819be0-28fe-11ea-8ab3-06e58f87e324", "EventId": "5816a850-3333-11ea-83e6-02bbe9b74d60", "StackName": "tech-blog", "LogicalResourceId": "tech-blog", "PhysicalResourceId": "arn:aws:cloudformation:eu-west-1:368341477005:stack/tech-blog/2b819be0-28fe-11ea-8ab3-06e58f87e324", "ResourceType": "AWS::CloudFormation::Stack", "Timestamp": "2020-01-09T22:57:00.