Hands On Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with AWS Cloud Formation

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DevOps Playground Meetup 19 - Introduction to CloudFromation

Introduction

This is a introduction to CloudFormation

The topics for this hands-on session will be on AWS Cloud Formation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC). During this Playground you will go through some basic concepts in Cloud Formation and provision some AWS resources.

Aims

What is a CloudFormation? What is a CF Template? How do we create a CF Stack from CF Template? What are Stack Change Sets? What is cnf-init?

Labs

• Lab-001 - Create a CloudFormation Stack to Provision a S3 bucket Resource
• Lab-002 - Updating Stacks with Security Groups
• Lab-003 - Provisioning Resources with cnf-init and Userdata

Further Reading

1. AWS CloudFormation FAQs
2. AWS CloudFormation Designer - Using us-east-1 region
3. Udemy - AWS CloudFormation Master Class
4. acloud.guru - Advanced AWS CloudFormation
5. YouTube - AWS re:Invent 2017: Deep Dive on AWS CloudFormation (DEV317), 29 Nov 2017
6. SlideShare - DEV317_Deep Dive on AWS CloudFormation, By Anil Kumar (Senior Product Manager), Luis Colon (Senior Developer Advocate)