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DevOps and Platform Engineering

AWS CDK EC2 CodeDeploy Pipeline: ALB and Auto Scaling Without the 2am 502s

Wiring CodePipeline, CodeDeploy, and Auto Scaling in CDK sounds straightforward until your first real scale event cracks the deployment. This post walks the full architecture - VPC, ALB, ASG, SSM config, and the lifecycle hook settings that keep deploys clean under load.

6 Apr 2026 9 min read

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