AWS CloudFormation:

A stack in the sky

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Senior software engineer 👴🏻

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On a scale from 🌈 to 💩
how do you feel about CloudFormation?

third option: ⛏️

CloudFormation

Infrastructure as Code (template) 🛣️

YAML / JSON ✍️

Deploy and connect resources 🏗️

Organized as stacks 📚

Continuous integration/development ♻️

IAM roles & policies 👮‍♀️

Check errors / Automatic rollback 💥

No additional cost  👍

What CF does not do

Coffee ☕

Access your machine locally (SAM) 🖥️

Check that your stack works the way you expect it to work (tests) 🔧

Monitor cost of deployed resources 💰

CloudFormation is not a super admin 🗿

 

Anatomy of a template

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: "2010-09-09"
Description: Static website using S3

Resources:
  S3Bucket:
    Type: AWS::S3::Bucket
    Properties:
      AccessControl: PublicRead
      BucketName: amazing-website-about-gherkins
      WebsiteConfiguration:
        IndexDocument: index.html
        ErrorDocument: error.html
    DeletionPolicy: Delete

Outputs:
  WebsiteURL:
    Value: !GetAtt [S3Bucket, WebsiteURL]
    Description: URL for website hosted on S3
  S3BucketSecureURL:
    Value: !Join ["", ["https://", !GetAtt [S3Bucket, DomainName]]]
    Description: Name of S3 bucket to hold website content

https://github.com/yvesgurcan/cloudformation-examples

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Let's check out

the console

https://console.aws.amazon.com/console/home

Common resource types

AWS::S3::Bucket

AWS::EC2::Instance

AWS::Lambda::Function

AWS::CloudWatch::Alarm

AWS::DynamoDB::Table

AWS::ApiGatewayV2::Api​

AWS::SecretsManager::Secret

AWS::IAM::Policy

AWS::IAM::Role

AWS::CloudFormation::Stack

AWS::Redshift::Cluster

AWS::IoT::Thing

AWS::RDS::DBInstance

AWS::Route53::HostedZone

AWS::SQS::Queue

AWS::StepFunctions::StateMachine

AWS::ElasticLoadBalancingV2::LoadBalancer

AWS::Athena::NamedQuery

AWS::CloudFront::Distribution

Something more involved

Lambda function and DynamoDB table.

Parameters (environment variables).

Create roles programmatically.

Stackery to the rescue!

Visualization of your templates 👀

Improvement compared to CF Designer 📊

Handle 20 common resources 🤹

CLI, GUI, VSC plugin 👩‍💻

Great documentation 📖

Linked to your GitHub repositories (PRO) 🔗

Developer plan is free 👌

Use CodeBuild under the hood 🏎️

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Let's connect the dots

 https://app.stackery.io/

Links

https://github.com/yvesgurcan/cloudformation-examples

https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation

https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/faqs

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/
aws-template-resource-type-ref.html

htps://github.com/awslabs/aws-cloudformation-templates

https://www.stackery.io

https://connect.yvesgurcan.com

Questions?

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AWS CloudFormation: A stack in the sky

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AWS CloudFormation: A stack in the sky

Link to the talk event on Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Portland-Serverless-Architecture-Meetup/events/268360327/. Tired of zipping your Lambdas by hand every time you want to deploy to production? What if I told you that there is a solution that lets you deploy your entire application to AWS from your local machine? What, you don't believe me? But this tool even has a cool aerial name that's like super on point because it's about cloud computing. Too good to be true? Great news! It's called CloudFormation.

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