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30 April 2014

The Utoolity team is pleased to present Tasks for AWS 2.3 – this release adds a new action to validate AWS CloudFormation stacks, support for stack policies and tags in the CloudFormation create/update actions and support for Docker and Ruby 2.0 solution stacks in AWS Elastic Beanstalk environments.

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Highlights

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New validate action for the 'AWS CloudFormation Stack' task

You can now validate an AWS CloudFormation stack separately from the existing create/update/delete actions to allow failing fast for errors in templates composed during the build.

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Support for stack policies in CloudFormation create/update actions 

AWS has recently announced the functionality to Prevent Updates to Stack Resources by means of applying a Stack Policy - this feature is now fully supported with the following options:

  1. You can provide a stack policy during stack create actions.

  2. You can update a stack policy during stack update actions.

  3. You can provide a temporary stack policy during stack update actions (to allow updating of resources protected by a permanent stack policy).

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Support for tags in CloudFormation create action

You can now specify Tags within the Advanced Options when creating a stack to identify your stack for purposes such as cost allocation (Tags defined for the stack are propagated to EC2 resources that are created as part of the stack).

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Support for Docker and Ruby 2.0 solution stacks in AWS Elastic Beanstalk tasks

The available solution stacks have been updated to include the latest versions, notably including the recently introduced Docker and Ruby 2.0 stacks, see the resp. announcements:

Details

This release addresses the following issues:

  • Stories

    • TAWS-241 (UAA-7) - As a user, I want a stack validation action so that I can compose templates separately

    • TAWS-144 - As a user, I want options to create, update and override CloudFormation stack policies so that I can control resource modifications

  • Improvements

    • TAWS-245 - Add Docker solution stack

    • TAWS-238 - Add tag support to the CloudFormation Stack create action

    • TAWS-225 - Adjust/Fix remaining inconsistencies in S3 transfer progress reporting

    • TAWS-224 - Add Ruby 2.0 solution stacks

  • Bugs

    • TAWS-243 (UAA-9) - Fix equal sign character ('=') not being supported within template parameter values

    • TAWS-237 - Fix S3 upload action failing with 'java.lang.NullPointerException' for non existing artifacts

Updates

Release 2.3.5

2014-08-03

This release addresses the following issues:

  • Improvements

    • TAWS-296 (UAA-13) - Add logging of nested CloudFormation stack resources

Release 2.3.4

2014-07-30

This release addresses the following issues:

  • Improvements

    • TAWS-355 - Update available Elastic Beanstalk solution stacks (as per 20140701)

  • Bugs

Release 2.3.3

2014-06-24

This release addresses the following issues:

  • Improvements

    • TAWS-302 - Add support for Elastic Beanstalk worker tier 1.1

    • TAWS-297 - Add support for Elastic Beanstalk Docker solution stack 1.0 (as per 20140618)

    • TAWS-246 - Add support for unknown solution stacks

    • TAWS-244 - Add tag support to the Elastic Beanstalk Environment create action

  • Bugs

    • TAWS-297 - Update available Elastic Beanstalk solution stacks (as per 20140605)

Release 2.3.2

2014-05-24

This release addresses the following issues:

  • Improvements

    • TAWS-274 - Update available Elastic Beanstalk solution stacks (as per 20140505)

  • Bugs

    • TAWS-289 - Analyze/Fix S3 uploads getting stuck

Release 2.3.1

2014-05-06

This release addresses the following issues:

  • Bugs

    • TAWS-267 - Fix CloudFormation template source not being selectable