Demo Code for AWS CloudFormation Stacks and Automation: Best Practices

This repository contains the demo code for the AWS CloudFormation Stacks and Automation: Best Practices.

List of Best Practices

• Use IAM Service Roles with CloudFormation Stacks
• Verify Service Quotas before executing CloudFormation Templates
• Organize your CloudFormation Templates according to lifecycle and ownership
• Reuse CloudFormation Templates with Parameters, Mappings, and Conditions
• Use Nested Stacks
• Share Cross-Stack Output Values
• Use Source Control with CloudFormation Templates
• Keep your resources from drifting
• Use Stack Policies to protect resources
• Use Change Sets when updating CloudFormation Stacks
• Use CloudTrail to log changes in CloudFormation

Known Issues

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License

All Images and Text copyright Ryan Lewis

All Code under MIT license