Operations and Working with Outposts Resources

You finally got your AWS Outposts delivered to your data center, installed, provisioned, and activated. The AWS Outposts team performed the handover process and you are hopefully excited to see it in action.

We have a lot to cover in this chapter and it will be heavily hands-on. The AWS Management Console is the interface of choice when we are beginning with AWS, but as we progress in our usage of the platform, there is a paradigm shift in the way we configure and implement changes to prefer Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation.

These tools alone are worthy of a book dedicated to teaching how to use them, falling out of the scope of this book. However, the AWS CLI is simpler and more familiar, because it uses the same scripting principles and techniques consecrated by the likes of Linux Bash or Microsoft PowerShell.

Once again, you don’t need to install the AWS CLI on your computer. We...