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AWS Automation Cookbook
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AWS Automation Cookbook

by Nikit Swaraj
November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
388 pages
8h 46m
English
Packt Publishing
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Terms and concepts related to AWS CloudFormation

When you use the AWS CloudFormation service, you will deal with templates and stacks. You will create a template file in which you will describe your resources and its properties. When you will create a stack using that template file, CloudFormation will provision the resources that were mentioned in the template.

A CloudFormation template is a file which is written in the JSON and YAML format. You can save these files in any extensions, such as .yaml, .json, .cft, or .txt. In this template, we basically mention all the resources that you want to provision. Using this template file, AWS CloudFormation builds your resources.

You can write the CloudFormation template in JSON as well as YAML. ...

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ISBN: 9781788394925