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Mastering AWS CloudFormation

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789130935
Length 300 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Karen Tovmasyan Karen Tovmasyan
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

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

Handling updates, deletions, and failures of CRs

Our CR can create a database for us. But try to guess what will happen if you attempt to delete this resource or stack from CloudFormation.

It will fail to delete. Why? Because our CR function runs only one function, create_db, it doesn't matter which request type is received by CloudFormation. Exactly the same will happen if we try to update our database.

We need to add support for updates and deletes for our Lambda. We will start with the delete functionality, because what we will do is make our custom resource immutable.

This means that whenever we change our custom database, the old one will always be deleted. Sounds scary? Don't worry: unfortunately, this is the default behavior for custom resources. Moreover, some AWS resources are also replaced (for example, a new resource is created while the old one is being deleted), even if nothing major is being changed.

Deleting resource

We will cover the delete...

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