Section 3: Extending CloudFormation
CloudFormation has its limits. In this final section, we will teach it to do more than just provision resources in AWS. We will start with Custom Resources and Template Macros, as our first step in CloudFormation customization. Once we're done with this, we will briefly touch on its possible successor, AWS CDK, and a new way of provisioning serverless applications called SAM.
This section comprises the following chapters:
- Chapter 7, Creating Resources outside AWS Using Custom Resources
- Chapter 8, Dynamically Rendering the Template Using Template Macros
- Chapter 9, Generating CloudFormation Templates Using AWS CDK
- Chapter 10, Deploying Serverless Applications Using AWS SAM
- Chapter 11, What's Next?