4 Programming your infrastructure: The command line, SDKs, and CloudFormation
This chapter covers
- Starting a virtual machine with the command-line interface (CLI)
- Starting a virtual machine with JavaScript SDK for Node.js
- Understanding the idea of infrastructure as code
- Using CloudFormation to start a virtual machine
Imagine that we want to provide room lighting as a service. To switch off the lights in a room using software, we need a hardware device like a relay connected to the light circuit. This hardware device must have some kind of interface that lets us send commands via software. With a relay and an interface, we can offer room lighting as a service.
To run a virtual machine, we need a lot of hardware and software—power supply, networking ...
Get Amazon Web Services in Action, Third Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
