AWS CloudFormation For Beginners with Examples

In this blog we will explore AWS CloudFormation with examples.

Prerequisite

1. Clone this git repo
2. AWS Account Setup

Agenda:

1. CloudFormation Concepts (Stacks & ChangeSet)
2. Parameters
3. Mappings
4. Conditions
5. Outputs

AWS CloudFormation is used to describe and provision all of the infrastructure resources in your cloud environment.

1. We called it as “Infrastructure as Code” which means that you are writing a code to create your infrastructure and it is repeatable and also version-able because you can store your code in your git repo.
2. So to create an infrastructure on AWS you actually create a CloudFormation template.

AWS CloudFormation Concepts

1. Stack

To create a resources we actually create a stack