AWS CloudFormation

wikipedia:AWS CloudFormation, available since May 2010, allows to create AWS resources (called in CloudFormation terminology stacks) using YAML or JSON documents, with AWS taking care of using the definitions to provision and configure the required resources. CloudFormation is an early example of a declarative Infrastructure as Code tool.. You can create AWS CloudFormation documents using Amazon CloudFormer (deprecated) tools or manually using your favorite text editor, once your documents are created you can executed them using AWS Web Console or AWS CLI.

Services

• AWS::CloudFormation::Stack
• AWS::ElasticLoadBalancingV2
• AWS::EC2
• AWS::Route53
• AWS::IAM::Role
• AWS::WAFv2::WebACL

Related terms

• AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) (2019)
• AWS CloudFormation Guard (Jun 2020)
• AWS Secrets Manager
• Outputs:
• ServicesStack:, Type:
• AWS CloudFormation "Deploy CloudFormation Stack" Action for GitHub Actions
• Linter: cfn-lint
• atom-cform
• Former2
• CloudCraft
• AWS CloudFormation Public Registry (Jun 2021)
• Change sets
• StackSets
• TaskCat
• cf_nag can discover obvious security flaws before deployment

CloudFormation commands

• aws cloudformation delete-stack
• aws cloudformation create-stack
• aws cloudformation deploy
• aws cloudformation describe-stacks
• aws cloudformation list-stacks

Announcements

• Nov 2020, Modules for AWS CloudFormation

Activities

• Read AWS CloudFormation blog https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/category/management-tools/aws-cloudformation/
• Review re:Invent 2018 information: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/your-aws-cloudformation-guide-to-reinvent-2018/

See also

• AWS CloudFormation: [aws cloudformation | create-stack | list-stacks | delete-stack | update-stack | list-types | estimate-template-cost | validate-template | describe-stacks | deploy | drift detection], aws cloudformation get-template-summary, aws cloudformation describe-stack-events
• AWS CloudFormation, AWS::CloudFormation AWS CloudFormation Designer, Drift detection, AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), aws cloudformation, ServicesStack:, AWS CloudFormation Linter (cfn-lint), Former2, CloudCraft, Change sets, AWS CloudFormation Public Registry, CloudFormation snippets, CloudFormation templates, StackSets, Outputs:, Type:, Fn::Sub, !Ref, CloudFormation Parameters, AWS CloudFormation Templates, CloudFormation functions
• AWS CLI, AWS Cloudformation, AWS CDK, Boto3
• IaC: Terraform, Chef, cdist, capistrano, Harrow, puppet, Ansible, CFEngine, Cloud Deployment Manager, pulumi, juju, SaltStack, Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Google Deployment Manager, AWS CloudFormation, Pulumi, Heat, Spacelift, Oracle Cloud Resource Manager, KICS, Troposphere, CaC, IaC scanning

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