Now that we have a solid understanding of CloudFormation, we’ll take a look at the third-party ecosystem. When it comes to third-party tools, the tool you will most frequently encounter – for now – will be Terraform. Even if you currently are or plan to manage your AWS deployments solely via CloudFormation, it’s worth having a good working knowledge of Terraform. Key points of differentiation with respect to CloudFormation include: a much more robust modularization mechanism than nested stacks; the ability to bring existing resources under active management ...
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B. CampbellThe Definitive Guide to AWS Infrastructure Automation https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5398-4_44. Terraform In-Depth
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