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

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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 (Mar 2016)
• StackSets
• TaskCat
• cf_nag can discover obvious security flaws before deployment
• CloudFormation stacks and cost estimates
• RDS template.cf
• AWS CloudFormation functions:
• AWS Service Catalog

CloudFormation commands

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

Announcements

• Apr 2021 AWS Budgets support: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/04/aws-budgets-announces-cloudformation-support-for-budget-actions/
• Nov 2020 Modules for AWS CloudFormation
• Mar 2012 Change sets

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/

Related

• Visual Studio
• AWSTemplateFormatVersion
• Oracle Cloud Resource Manager

See also

• CloudFormation functions: Fn::, !Ref, !Join, !If, !Sub, Fn::GetAtt
• 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

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