Summary
In this chapter, we ran through a hands-on exercise that deployed a set of Infrastructure As Code (IaC) templates using AWS CloudFormation. This allowed you to deploy a complex and interrelated constellation of infrastructure components in minutes – something that could have taken hours to configure by hand in the AWS Management Console.
Next, we showed you how to install the AWS Snow CLI and configure AWS CLI v2 for use with the endpoints on an AWS Snow Family device. You also learned how to use these tools to unlock the device, create VNIs, and launch EC2 instances. We then covered how to configure the AWS IoT Greengrass v2 agent within an EC2 instance running on the AWS Snow Family device.
Finally, we did a walkthrough of how to connect to the EC2 instance remotely, and how to use the AWS IoT Greengrass v2 Core device as a gateway for sensors and other AWS IoT Core devices.
In the next chapter, you will walk through another hands-on exercise that uses IaC...