Advanced AWS CloudFormation for Enterprise

Course details

With AWS CloudFormation, DevOps professionals are able to create a collection of AWS and third-party resources, then easily provision, manage, and automate them. Join IT architect and Notre Dame professor Brandon Rich as he covers the skills you need to know to get the most out of AWS CloudFormation for enterprise.

Expand your technical know-how as a DevOps pro and AWS system administrator, exploring built-in functions, the AWS command line, custom resources, composable and reusable templates, CloudFormation macros, and more. By the end of this course, you’ll be ready to not only provision and manage your own resource collections, but to successfully automate them as well.

Concepts

Introduction

What is Advanced CloudFormation
What you should know
Exercise files

AWS CloudFormation Development Environment

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

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

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

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

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