July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
402 pages
9h 38m
English
As you would expect, you can access CloudFormation via the AWS console (https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudformation) or by using the command line:
$ aws cloudformation help # for the list of options
The service is organized around the concept of stacks. Each stack typically describes a set of AWS resources and their configurations in order to start an application. When working with CloudFormation, most of your time is spent editing those templates.
There are different ways to get started with the actual editing of the templates. One of the easiest ways is to edit existing templates. AWS has a number of well-written examples available at http://amzn.to/27cHmrb.
At the highest level, templates are structured ...
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