AWS Step Functions: Workflows for development and testing

In this session, viewers learn a pattern for development and testing of AWS Step Functions workflows. The example chosen is a parallel workflow triggered by an AWS Config change. For example, when port 22 (SSH) is opened on an EC2 instance, this could trigger a remediation workflow. The instance could be placed into a quarantine security group while a snapshot of taken of its EBS volumes.

In order to complete this workflow, we review Step Functions support in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code. We use the toolkit to create a simple workflow with a parallel state and two pass states, and use the AWS SAM CLI to migrate the workflow into a SAM template. We setup CI/CD for the SAM template with the CircleCI aws-sam-serverless orb. We iterate two AWS Lambda functions into the SAM template to replace pass states. We invoke a workflow from the command line using input events generated by SAM CLI. Finally, we review what you've learned and conclude the session.

[argl]

Can we get that blog post links which Rob talked about in the lecture?