Mastering AWS CloudFormation : build resilient and production-ready infrastructure in Amazon Web services with CloudFormation / Karen Tovmasyan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tovmasyan, Karen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cloud computing.

Web services.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, UK : Packt Publishing Ltd., 2023.

Summary:

The advent of DevOps and the cloud revolution has compelled software engineers and operations teams to rethink how to manage complex infrastructures and build resilient solutions. With this AWS book, you’ll find out how you can use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to simplify infrastructure operations and manage the modern cloud with AWS CloudFormation. This guide covers AWS CloudFormation comprehensively, from template structures to developing complex and reusable infrastructure stacks. It takes you through template validation, stack deployment, and handling deployment failures. It also demonstrates the use of AWS CodeBuild and CodePipeline for automating resource delivery and implementing continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices. As you advance, you’ll learn how to modularize and unify your template on the fly using macros or by fixating the version using modules. You’ll create resources outside of AWS with custom resources and catalog them with the CloudFormation registry. Finally, you’ll improve the way you manage the modern cloud environment on AWS by extending CloudFormation through the AWS serverless application model (SAM) and the AWS cloud development kit (CDK). By the end of this book, you’ll have mastered key AWS CloudFormation concepts and will be able to extend its capabilities for developing and deploying your own infrastructure.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Contributors

Table of Contents

Preface

Part 1: CloudFormation Internals

Chapter 1: Working with CloudFormation

Technical requirements

Understanding the internals of AWS CloudFormation

Creating and updating a CloudFormation stack

Managing CloudFormation IAM permissions

Drift detection

Summary

Questions

Further reading

Chapter 2: Advanced Template Development

Going through the internals of the template

AWSTemplateFormatVersion

Description

Metadata

Parameters

Mappings

Conditions

Transform

Resources

Outputs

Creating reusable templates

Using conditional elements

Deletion policies

Referring to existing stacks

AWS pseudo parameters

AWS::AccountId

AWS::NoValue

AWS::Region

AWS::StackId and AWS::StackName

AWS::URLSuffix

AWS::Partition

Dynamic references with Parameter Store and Secrets Manager

Using CloudFormation language extensions

Part 2: Provisioning and Deployment at Scale

Chapter 3: Validation, Linting, and Deploying the Stack

Technical requirements

Validating the template

Using a linter for best practices on templates

Evaluating templates with cfn-lint

Using a policy-based linter

Choosing the right linter

Provisioning our stack

Deploying stacks using change sets

Handling errors

Working with drifts

Chapter 4: Continuous Integration and Deployment

Including a template in your application

Running smoke tests on your stack

Smoke testing for EC2 auto scaling groups

Smoke-testing VPC resources

Best practices for the release management of CloudFormation stacks

Always use version control systems

Ensure that your dependencies can be easily retrieved

Keep your code base clean

Choose a proper branching model

Always perform a code review

Have full test coverage

Don't forget to use a CloudFormation IAM role

Always perform smoke testing

Use the correct CI/CD instruments

Keep up the good work

Creating a CI/CD pipeline with CloudFormation and CodePipeline

Scenario

core stack

Further reading

Chapter 5: Deploying to Multiple Regions and Accounts Using StackSets

The legacy way of multi-regional and multi-account infrastructure management

Introducing StackSets

Permissions

Deploying to multiple regions

Using the AWS console

Using awscli

Best practices for StackSets

Deploying to multiple accounts

Preventing failures of multiple StackSet deployments using TAGs

Chapter 6: Configuration Management of EC2 Instances Using cfn-init

Introducing cfn-init

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9781805123903

1805123904

OCLC:

1409811647