Networking infrastructure has become increasingly complex and advanced, and managing the configuration of networks has come under increased demands for higher velocity and consistency.
This chapter will focus on creating basic building blocks, that is, networks using automation scripts. We will be using CloudFormation and Ansible tools for automation. There are sample playbooks for your reference.
CloudFormation provided by AWS gives us the ability to provision and manage AWS resources. CloudFormation templates support a wide range of AWS resources; you can create templates for the services and applications you want to build. You can create or update a stack to provision/manage the resources. You can create a template for managing a single EC2 instance or a highly available multi-tier application. The best part of CloudFormation is it automatically takes care of the...
