Mastering AWS CloudFormation
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Free ChapterSection 1: CloudFormation Internals
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CloudFormation Refresher
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Advanced Template Development
- Advanced Template Development
- Technical requirements
- Going through the internals of the template
- Creating reusable templates
- Using conditional elements
- Deletion policies
- Referring to existing stacks
- AWS pseudo parameters
- Dynamic references with Parameter Store and Secrets Manager
- Summary
- Questions
- Further reading
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Section 2: Provisioning and Deployment at Scale
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Validation, Linting, and Deployment of the Stack
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Continuous Integration and Deployment
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Deploying to Multiple Regions and Accounts Using StackSets
- Deploying to Multiple Regions and Accounts Using StackSets
- Technical requirements
- The old-fashioned way of multi-regional and multi-account infrastructure management
- Introducing StackSets
- Deploying to multiple regions
- Best practices for StackSets
- Deploying to multiple accounts
- Preventing failures of multiple StackSet deployments using TAGs
- Summary
- Questions
- Further reading
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Configuration Management of the EC2 Instances Using cfn-init
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Section 3: Extending CloudFormation
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Creating Resources outside AWS Using Custom Resources
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Dynamically Rendering the Template Using Template Macros
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Generating CloudFormation Templates Using AWS CDK
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Deploying Serverless Applications Using AWS SAM
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What's Next?
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Assessments
- Chapter 1: CloudFormation Refresher
- Chapter 2: Advanced Template Development
- Chapter 3: Validation, Linting, and Deployment of the Stack
- Chapter 4: Continuous Integration and Deployment
- Chapter 5: Deploying to Multiple Regions and Accounts Using StackSets
- Chapter 6: Configuration Management of the EC2 Instances Using cfn-init
- Chapter 7: Creating Resources outside AWS Using Custom Resources
- Chapter 8: Dynamically Rendering the Template Using Template Macros
- Chapter 9: Generating CloudFormation Templates Using AWS CDK
- Chapter 10: Deploying Serverless Applications Using AWS SAM
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DevOps and the cloud revolution have forced software engineers and operations teams to rethink how to manage infrastructures. With this AWS book, you'll understand how you can use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to simplify IT operations and manage the modern cloud infrastructure effectively with AWS CloudFormation.
This comprehensive guide will help you explore AWS CloudFormation from template structures through to developing complex and reusable infrastructure stacks. You'll then delve into validating templates, deploying stacks, and handling deployment failures. The book will also show you how to leverage AWS CodeBuild and CodePipeline to automate resource delivery and apply continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices to the stack. As you advance, you'll learn how to generate templates on the fly using macros and create resources outside AWS with custom resources. Finally, you'll improve the way you manage the modern cloud in AWS by extending CloudFormation using AWS serverless application model (SAM) and AWS cloud development kit (CDK).
By the end of this book, you'll have mastered all the major AWS CloudFormation concepts and be able to simplify infrastructure management.
- Publication date:
- May 2020
- Publisher
- Packt
- Pages
- 300
- ISBN
- 9781789130935