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Effective DevOps with AWS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786466815
Length 402 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Managing your infrastructure with CloudFormation

CloudFormation introduces a new way to manage services and their configurations. Through the creation of JSON or YAML files, CloudFormation lets you describe exactly the AWS architecture you would like to build. Once your files are created, you can simply upload your files to CloudFormation, which will execute them and automatically create or update your AWS resources.

Most AWS managed tools and services are supported. You can get the full list at http://amzn.to/1Odslix. In this chapter, we will only look at the infrastructure we have built so far, but we will add more resources in the next chapters.

After a brief overview of how CloudFormation is structured, we will create a minimalist stack to recreate the Hello World web application from Chapter 2, Deploying Your First Web Application. After that, we will see two more options...

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