Chapter 3. Managing AWS Resources Using AWS CloudFormation
In this chapter, we will cover recipes for:
- Creating CloudFormation templates
- Creating CloudFormation templates from existing AWS resources
- Deploying applications on EC2 instances
- Updating a stack
Introduction
In this chapter, we present recipes for using AWS CloudFormation to create, update, and delete a collection of related AWS resources. We use CloudFormation templates to define AWS resources, and any other dependencies and parameters that are required to run a given specific application. A template is essentially a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) file. Using AWS CloudFormation, you can implement version control for your infrastructure and define new templates, or use existing ones, to ...
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