AWS CloudFormation: Introduction to Infrastructure as Code
As AWS-based cloud environments grow in complexity, DevOps Professionals need to adopt more powerful tools and techniques to manage complex deployments. In the AWS ecosystem, CloudFormation is the most powerful and sophisticated automation tool available to developers. AWS CloudFormation can be used to automatically provision your AWS resources across multiple accounts and regions all from a simple text file. In this course, I will explain the components of this service and how they operate together to provide you with this feature of provisioning your infrastructure as code.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course you will be able to:
- Explain what AWS CloudFormation is and what it’s used for
- Determine the benefits of AWS CloudFormation
- Understand what each of the core components are and what they are used for
- Create a CloudFormation Stack using an existing AWS template
Intended Audience
This course is intended for DevOps and SysOps engineers, as well as Architects who have a level of responsibility when it comes to deploying, provisioning, managing and maintaining resources within your AWS infrastructure.
Prerequisites
As a prerequisite of this course, it would be beneficial to you to have an understanding of basic AWS concepts and core services.
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