Chapter 7: Using CloudFormation Templates to Deploy Workloads
CloudFormation templates offer DevOps engineers an easy way to create, manage, and provision related resources automatically. They also allow you to stand up the same infrastructure over and over again quickly, be it for development, testing, production, or disaster recovery. They are not only an essential concept to know of, but also to understand for the DevOps professional exam.
In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:
- Essential CloudFormation topics
- Creating nested stacks with dependencies
- Adding a helper script to a CloudFormation template
- Understanding how to detect drift in previously created stacks
- Using the Cloud Development Kit (CDK) as an open source framework