You're reading from Mastering AWS CloudFormation Plan, develop, and deploy your cloud infrastructure effectively using AWS CloudFormation

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789130935

Length 300 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Infrastructure Management

Author (1):

Karen Tovmasyan

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: CloudFormation Internals

2. CloudFormation Refresher FREE CHAPTER

3. Advanced Template Development

4. Section 2: Provisioning and Deployment at Scale

5. Validation, Linting, and Deployment of the Stack

6. Continuous Integration and Deployment

7. Deploying to Multiple Regions and Accounts Using StackSets

8. Configuration Management of the EC2 Instances Using cfn-init

9. Section 3: Extending CloudFormation

10. Creating Resources outside AWS Using Custom Resources

11. Dynamically Rendering the Template Using Template Macros

12. Generating CloudFormation Templates Using AWS CDK

13. Deploying Serverless Applications Using AWS SAM

14. What's Next?

15. Assessments

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Continuous Integration and Deployment

We know how to build our templates, and we know how to make sure they are valid and how to deploy them. Now it is time to apply another block of DevOps, called Continuous Delivery (CD). CD is used to test our applications against real-life scenarios and deploy them seamlessly so that the end user notices the changes once they refresh the page. This means no downtime and no The page is under maintenance messages.

In Infrastructure as Code (IaC), you treat your infrastructure and resources as a computer application. Although you cannot perform unit tests against your templates, you still have various options for how to run a proper Continuous Delivery pipeline.

In this chapter, we will learn how to include our templates in our applications. We will also learn how we can test our stacks and how we can apply Amazon Web Services CloudFormation (AWS CloudFormation) in Continuous Delivery practices. By the end of this chapter, we will be able to...