AWS Cloudformation
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Cloudformation
• Tool used to make automatic resources deployment on AWS
• Template file in json or yaml à Infrastructure as Code
• + Very good documentation
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Cloudformation – When to use it ?
Usefull use cases :
• Deployment to multiple environment
• Deployment of the same application multiple time
• Can be used to deploy every part of your infrastructure, it is then
easier to manage what was deployed
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Cloudformation - Syntax
Parameters :
• Used to custom your template by allowing you to have dynamic
values each time you deploy the template
• Parameters values are asked when you deploy the template
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Cloudformation - Syntax
Parameters :
• You can use Specific AWS types for the parameters
• Supported types :
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Cloudformation - Syntax
Resource deployment :
• Define the resource you want to deploy
• You can access you parameter’s value or another resource by using
the function Ref
• Other functions : GetAtt, GetAZs, join, sub…
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Cloudformation – How to deploy ?
Go to create stack
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Cloudformation – How to deploy ?
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Cloudformation – How to deploy ?
Specify your stack name and parameters value
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Cloudformation – Checking the deployed stack
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Cloudformation – Checking the deployed stack
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Cloudformation – Updating the stack
To update the stack, select the stack on the console and:
• Click update stack
• Upload the updated cloudformation stack
• Only the resources modified in the template will be modified
• If anything goes wrong during the update, the stack rollbacks to the
last stable state
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Cloudformation – deleting the stack
To delete the stack, select the stack on the console and:
• Click delete stack
• Be aware that all of the resources that were created by the stack
will be deleted
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