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Mastering AWS CloudFormation

By : Karen Tovmasyan
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Mastering AWS CloudFormation

By: Karen Tovmasyan

Overview of this book

DevOps and the cloud revolution have forced software engineers and operations teams to rethink how to manage infrastructures. With this AWS book, you'll understand how you can use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to simplify IT operations and manage the modern cloud infrastructure effectively with AWS CloudFormation. This comprehensive guide will help you explore AWS CloudFormation from template structures through to developing complex and reusable infrastructure stacks. You'll then delve into validating templates, deploying stacks, and handling deployment failures. The book will also show you how to leverage AWS CodeBuild and CodePipeline to automate resource delivery and apply continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices to the stack. As you advance, you'll learn how to generate templates on the fly using macros and create resources outside AWS with custom resources. Finally, you'll improve the way you manage the modern cloud in AWS by extending CloudFormation using AWS serverless application model (SAM) and AWS cloud development kit (CDK). By the end of this book, you'll have mastered all the major AWS CloudFormation concepts and be able to simplify infrastructure management.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: CloudFormation Internals
4
Section 2: Provisioning and Deployment at Scale
9
Section 3: Extending CloudFormation

Using conditional elements

We want to have reusable templates, but sometimes we need to create a resource in one case and don't need to create one in another, or perhaps create one with different attributes.

Conditions are handy to solve that kind of problem, and can be used in two ways: to specify the Condition under the resource or to use the conditional intrinsic function in the resource properties.

We already know that Condition is a strict Boolean variable, which is evaluated by parameters and conditional functions. We have already learned how conditions are used in resource declaration (jump to the Going through the internals of the template section if you need a refresher), so let's look at another useful example.

Say that we have an AutoScaling group that is built from a launch template. We expect to have a different load on test and production, so we want to adjust the size of the EC2 instance accordingly. For now, we are happy with t3.micro on test and...