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AWS CloudFormation - The Easy Way

Yan Kurniawan

CloudFormation is the best tool to provision and manage your AWS resources.

This book will help you to become acquainted quickly with AWS CloudFormation.

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AWS CloudFormation is a service that helps you model and set up your Amazon Web Services resources. With CloudFormation you create a template that describes all the AWS resources you need (like Amazon EC2 instances or Amazon RDS DB instances), and AWS CloudFormation takes care of provisioning and configuring those resources for you. You don't need to individually create and configure AWS resources and figure out what's dependent on what; AWS CloudFormation handles all of that. 

This book provides you with an overview of AWS CloudFormation and shows you how to use CloudFormation templates and stacks. The example project will help you grasp the concepts quickly. You will master the AWS CloudFormation in no time!

Any feedback, suggestion, and correction that can help making this book better is highly appreciated. Use this link to contact me: https://leanpub.com/aws-cloudformation/email_author/new.

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Yan Kurniawan

Yan Kurniawan is a freelance Cloud/DevOps Engineer. Yan has worked on many AWS projects and he has helped companies from startups to Fortune 100 companies. He is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional and a Puppet Certified Professional.

Based in Sydney, Australia, he enjoys the laid-back lifestyle in one of the world’s best cities to live in. He loves taking beautiful cityscape and landscape pictures with his camera. You can find his works here.

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Contents

Table of Contents

About the Author

Preface

  1. What this book covers
  2. Who this book is for
  3. What you need for this book
  4. Conventions
  5. This is an information box
  6. This is a warning box
  7. Tips and tricks
  8. Example Code Files

Chapter 1: Getting Started with AWS

  1. What is Amazon Web Services (AWS)?
  2. AWS Global Infrastructure
  3. Setting Up Your AWS Account
  4. AWS Management Console
  5. Create Your First EC2 Instance
  6. Connect to Your Instance
  7. Terminate Your Instance

Chapter 2: Getting Started with CloudFormation

  1. What is AWS CloudFormation
  2. AWS CloudFormation Concepts
  3. How Does AWS CloudFormation Work?
  4. Template Anatomy
  5. Format Version
  6. Description
  7. Metadata
  8. Parameters
  9. Parameter’s Properties
  10. Type Property
  11. AWS-specific Parameter Types
  12. Mappings
  13. Conditions
  14. Resources
  15. Outputs
  16. Your First Template
  17. Updating Stack
  18. Canceling a Stack Update
  19. Deleting Stack

Chapter 3: The IAM Stack

  1. Introduction to IAM
  2. Getting Started with IAM
  3. IAM Best Practices
  4. Creating Your First IAM Admin User and Group
  5. IAM Stack
  6. AWS::IAM::Role
  7. AWS::IAM::Policy
  8. AWS::IAM::InstanceProfile

Chapter 4: The Network Stack

  1. Introduction to VPC
  2. The Default VPC
  3. VPC and Subnet Basics
  4. Getting Started with VPCs and Subnets
  5. NAT Gateways
  6. Security Groups for Your VPC
  7. Network Stack
  8. Route53 Hosted Zones
  9. AWS::EC2::VPC
  10. AWS::EC2::Subnet
  11. AWS::EC2::RouteTable
  12. AWS::EC2::Route
  13. AWS::EC2::SubnetRouteTableAssociation
  14. AWS::EC2::InternetGateway
  15. AWS::EC2::VPCGatewayAttachment
  16. AWS::EC2::NatGateway

Chapter 5: The Application Stack

  1. Introduction to Auto Scaling
  2. How Auto Scaling Works
  3. The Architecture
  4. Getting Started with Auto Scaling
  5. Scaling the Size of Your Auto Scaling Group
  6. Load Balance Your Auto Scaling Group
  7. Getting Started with ELB
  8. Attaching Load Balancer to ASG
  9. Scheduled Scaling
  10. Dynamic Scaling
  11. Scaling Based on Metrics
  12. Application Stack
  13. AWS::AutoScaling::LaunchConfiguration
  14. AWS::AutoScaling::AutoScalingGroup
  15. AWS::AutoScaling::ScalingPolicy
  16. AWS::CloudWatch::Alarm
  17. AWS::ElasticLoadBalancing::LoadBalancer
  18. AWS::RDS::DBSubnetGroup
  19. AWS::RDS::DBInstance
  20. AWS::EC2::Instance

Chapter 6: Stack Policy

  1. Example Stack Policy
  2. Defining a Stack Policy
  3. Setting a Stack Policy
  4. Updating Protected Resources
  5. More Example Stack Policies

Appendix A: Converting JSON to YAML

  1. JSON to YAML
  2. YAML to JSON

Appendix B: CLI Commands

  1. Creating a Stack
  2. Describing and Listing Your Stacks
  3. Viewing Stack Event History
  4. Listing Resources
  5. Retrieving a Template
  6. Validating a Template
  7. Uploading Local Artifacts to an S3 Bucket
  8. Quickly Deploying Templates with Transforms
  9. Deleting a Stack

Appendix C: Intrinsic Function

  1. Fn::Base64
  2. Condition Functions
  3. Fn::FindInMap
  4. Fn::GetAtt
  5. Fn::GetAZs
  6. Fn::ImportValue
  7. Fn::Join
  8. Fn::Select
  9. Fn::Sub
  10. Ref

Appendix D: Resource Attribute

  1. CreationPolicy Attribute
  2. DeletionPolicy Attribute
  3. DependsOn Attribute
  4. Metadata Attribute
  5. UpdatePolicy Attribute

Appendix E: Pseudo Parameters

  1. AWS::AccountId
  2. AWS::NotificationARNs
  3. AWS::NoValue
  4. AWS::Region
  5. AWS::StackId
  6. AWS::StackName

Appendix F: Helper Scripts

  1. cfn-init
  2. cfn-signal
  3. cfn-get-metadata
  4. cfn-hup

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