Mastering AWS CloudFormation by Karen Tovmasyan

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.

What you will learn
Understand modern approaches to IaC
Develop universal and reusable CloudFormation templates
Discover ways to apply continuous delivery with CloudFormation
Implement IaC best practices for the AWS Cloud
Provision massive applications across multiple regions and accounts
Automate template generation and software provisioning for AWS
Extend CloudFormation with custom resources and template macros
Who this book is for
If you are a developer who wants to learn how to write templates, a DevOps engineer interested in deployment and orchestration, or a solutions architect looking to understand the benefits of managing infrastructure with ease, this book is for you. Prior understanding of the AWS Cloud is necessary.

Table of Contents
CloudFormation Refresher
Advanced Template Development
Validation, Linting, and Deployment of the Stack
Continuous Integration and Deployment
Deploying to Multiple Regions and Accounts Using StackSets
Configuration Management of the EC2 Instances Using cfn-init
Creating Resources outside AWS Using Custom Resources
Dynamically Rendering the Template Using Template Macros
Generating CloudFormation Templates Using AWS CDK
Deploying Serverless Applications Using AWS SAM
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