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Cloud Security Automation

You're reading from   Cloud Security Automation Get to grips with automating your cloud security on AWS and OpenStack

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788627863
Length 334 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Prashant Priyam Prashant Priyam
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Preface 1. Introduction to Cloud Security FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding the World of Cloud Automation 3. Identity and Access Management in the Cloud 4. Cloud Network Security 5. Cloud Storage and Data Security 6. Cloud Platform Security 7. Private Cloud Security 8. Automating Cloud Security 9. Cloud Compliance 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Infrastructure as Code

Now, as you have already learned about the basic fundamentals of DevOps, let's start to understand it by example. As an example, I will use the CloudFormation template to describe how easy and fast it is to deploy solutions in AWS.

CloudFormation is an AWS service that is used to provision your IT Infrastructure as Code. Once it's coded, you can deploy it in any region, and it also gives you facility to customize it as per your own wishes.

As we can see in the following screenshot, CloudFormation gives you a very rich GUI where you can drag and drop the required components and establish relations between them, and in backend code is automatically generated in the JSON and YAML formats. Once you are done drawing using drag and drop, you save this as a template and start deployment:

In CloudFormation, we generate code in the...
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