Apprentice Level

Introduction to AWS CloudFormation

By Abhaya Chauhan

Learn how to use CloudFormation, the AWS approach to automating the management of complex infrastructure and environments in a safe, reliable and repeatable manner.

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2 hours

30 Lessons

About the course

Hello Cloud Gurus!

Like on-premises infrastructures, modern Cloud infrastructures are a tangle of diverse, interdependent components: to work in harmony, instances, storage, load balancers, firewalls, databases, and content delivery networks must be correctly provisioned and configured — a historically manual process that’s complex, time-consuming, and error-prone.

This brand-new course is an introduction to AWS CloudFormation, which automates the provisioning of your AWS Infrastructure. Once you’ve specified your infrastructure in a reusable JSON or YAML template, CloudFormation provisions your resources in a safe, repeatable manner, removing the need for manual actions or custom scripts.

With this course, you will:

Learn what AWS CloudFormation is, and the benefits it provides
Understand the anatomy of a CloudFormation Template
Read and write your own CloudFormation templates
Learn how to make templates reusable
Understand the creation and use of nested templates
Update and delete your CloudFormation Stacks.

Since this is just an introduction, we won’t be going too deep in this course, but you will gain enough knowledge and practice to start using it in your projects. No prior coding experience is required.

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Chapter 1 3 Lessons Introduction 5:29

Introduction
3:35

Files for Demo Lessons
1:00

A Note About Demo Lessons
0:54
Chapter 2 4 Lessons Managing Infrastructure in the Cloud 13:55

Managing Infrastructure in the Cloud
2:11

Infrastructure as Code
2:10

What is CloudFormation?
2:40

Demo: Introducing CloudFormation
6:54
Chapter 3 2 Lessons CloudFormation Fundamentals 10:56

Terminology
3:55

Template Anatomy
7:01
Chapter 4 12 Lessons CloudFormation Features 38:45

Intrinstic Functions
2:17

Demo: Intrinsic Functions
5:09

Multiple Resources
1:23

Demo: Multiple Resources
4:59

Pseudo Parameters
1:38

Demo: Pseudo Parameters
2:51

Mappings
3:02

Demo: Mappings
5:12

Input Parameters
2:19

Demo: Input Parameters
4:40

Outputs
1:43

Demo: Outputs
3:32
Chapter 5 5 Lessons Setting up an EC2 Instance 17:49

Introduction
1:23

User Data
3:02

CloudFormation Helper Scripts
1:34

CloudFormation Init
3:25

Demo: Setting up an EC2 Instance
8:25
Chapter 6 3 Lessons Updating our Stack with Change Sets 32:12

Introduction
5:57

Demo Part 1: Change Sets
14:55

Demo Part 2: Change Sets
11:20
Chapter 7 1 Lesson Closing Notes 2:46

Summary
2:46

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Introduction to AWS CloudFormation

About the course

Introduction

Files for Demo Lessons

A Note About Demo Lessons

Managing Infrastructure in the Cloud

Infrastructure as Code

What is CloudFormation?

Demo: Introducing CloudFormation

Terminology

Template Anatomy

Intrinstic Functions

Demo: Intrinsic Functions

Multiple Resources

Demo: Multiple Resources

Pseudo Parameters

Demo: Pseudo Parameters

Mappings

Demo: Mappings

Input Parameters

Demo: Input Parameters

Outputs

Demo: Outputs

Introduction

User Data

CloudFormation Helper Scripts

CloudFormation Init

Demo: Setting up an EC2 Instance

Introduction

Demo Part 1: Change Sets

Demo Part 2: Change Sets

Summary

What you will need

What you can expect

Practice alongside courses in Cloud Playground

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