Advanced AWS CloudFormation for Enterprise

Master your DevOps and system administration skills with advanced techniques in AWS CloudFormation.

Introduction

• What is Advanced CloudFormation?
• What you should know
• Exercise files

1. AWS CloudFormation Development Environment

• Install cfn-lint for AWS CloudFormation and VSCode
• Accelerate AWS CloudFormation template writing with CloudFormation Snippets

2. AWS CloudFormation: Beyond the Basics

• Understand AWS CloudFormation parameter types
• AWS CloudFormation built-in functions: Substitutions and value references
• AWS CloudFormation built-in functions: Lookups and lists
• Sharing values between CloudFormation stacks
• AWS CloudFormation conditions
• Demo: Examining a template with conditions
• Demo: Running a template with conditions
• AWS CloudFormation pseudo parameters
• Making decisions with AWS CloudFormation change sets
• Keep consistency with AWS CloudFormation drift detection
• CloudFormation StackSets concepts and IAM setup
• Manage multiple AWS accounts with CloudFormation StackSets
• Protecting and backing up CloudFormation resources

3. AWS CloudFormation: Advanced Actions

• Working with the AWS CloudFormation command-line interface
• Resolving secret values with AWS CloudFormation dynamic references
• Demo: AWS CloudFormation dynamic references
• Resource dependencies and wait conditions
• Demo: Resource dependencies and wait conditions
• Understanding AWS CloudFormation custom resources
• Demo: Creating custom resources
• Demo: Using custom resources

4. Composable and Reusable Templates

• Demo: Composing CloudFormation stacks with nested stacks and packaged code
• Transform templates with AWS CloudFormation macros
• Demo: Template-level macro transformations
• Demo: Snippet-level macro transformations
• Macro teardown
• Create reusable components with CloudFormation modules
• Demo: Creating a CloudFormation module
• Demo: Using a CloudFormation module

5. AWS CloudFormation Automations

• Provisioning instances with CloudFormation's cfn-init
• Patterns of CloudFormation automation
• Setup: Deploying CloudFormation from GitHub with CodePipeline
• Demo: Deploying CloudFormation from GitHub with CodePipeline
• CodePipeline teardown

Conclusion

• Next steps