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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

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to perform testing against CloudFormation stacks and what the best practices are for Continuous Delivery with CloudFormation.

We also created our very first pipeline using development services in AWS, such as CodeCommit, CodeBuild, and CodePipeline.

Although this pipeline is working and doing what it is supposed to do, there is always room for improvement. Ask yourself what you could add to the pipeline or change to make it more effective.

We should move the creation of the temporary stack from CodeBuild to CodePipeline as an extra stage so we can save some money since, in CodeBuild, you pay for build execution time. Simply put, while CodeBuild waits until the temporary stack has been created, the build job is being billed.

Another thing is that by using the same temporary stack name (core-tmp), we are not able to run multiple builds at the same time. If another build runs while core-tmp is being deleted by a previous build, we will...

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