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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

What's Next?

Welcome to the last chapter of Mastering AWS CloudFormation!

In this chapter, we are going to sit back and relax, since we have done a lot of hard work learning CloudFormation, its capabilities, features, and extensions. This chapter will give us an insight into what we can expect in the future for both CloudFormation and infrastructure as code.

You may wonder why we are finishing this book by making predictions when you are probably interested in continuing to practice using CloudFormation.

You may be right in that matter. This book is meant to help you master CloudFormation, and you have been busy doing this for 10 long chapters. But there is one thing you need to consider.

The world is continually changing, and so is IT, development, cloud providers, and AWS. We cannot be completely ready for what is going to happen, but we can try to predict it. In the end, it is not only technical skills but also erudition and mindset that make a good engineer.

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