Using AWS CloudFormation for fast provisioning

AWS CloudFormation is a service to make AWS resource creation easy. A simple JSON format text file could give you the power to create application infrastructure with just a few clicks. System administrators and developers can create, update, and manage their AWS resources easily without worrying about human error. In this section, we will leverage the content of the previous sections in this chapter and use CloudFormation to create them and launch instances with the Kubernetes setting automatically.

Getting ready

The unit of CloudFormation is a stack. One stack is created by one CloudFormation template, which is a text file listing AWS resources in the JSON format. Before we launch a CloudFormation ...

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