Hands-On Introduction To Cloudformation

Learn the basics of programming with minimal AWS knowledge required. Ideal for anyone new to CloudFormation.

What you'll learn
Understand basic CloudFormation concepts and templates, resources, and stacks
Write, Modify, Update, and Execute a series of CloudFormation Templates and Stacks
Use options like conditions, outputs, mappings, references, and paramaters
Understand the best ways to design and debug CloudFormation Templates
Requirements
Basic AWS knowledge
Description
Do you need to understand the basics of CloudFormation? Have you found that many training resources use complex technical jargon that makes it difficult to understand the basic concepts? If you need to get a basic understanding of CloudFormation quickly and clearly, this is the course for you. We will use real examples of CloudFormation Templates that you can try on your own.This course will teach you the following:The basic concepts of CloudFormation and what it can be used forHow to separate CloudFormation templates to make them reusable and easy to debugUnderstand the tools used to create CloudFormation templatesUnderstand and modify YAML formatted CloudFormation TemplatesUsing CloudFormation Designer to get a visual representation of your templatesHow to create an EC2 instance with an Elastic IP, and IAM role, and a Security GroupHow to apply tags to the resources you createCreate an S3 bucket with versioning enabledUpdate CloudFormation stacks with a new S3 bucket nameUse parameters to allow users to provide input when creating a CloudFormation stackUse conditions to customize which resources are created in different situationsUse mappings with test and dev environments and across different regionsI have taught over 200,000 students across a variety of platforms, and I think anyone who needs to understand CloudFormation will love this course. Most lectures in this course are 5 - 10 minutes long. This course gives you an understanding of the most critical knowledge areas of CloudFormation and gives you hands-on experience.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 About this Course

Lecture 2 Introduction

Lecture 3 CloudFormation Basics

Lecture 4 Separation of Template Functions

Lecture 5 CloudFormation Designer

Section 2: Template Set #1 - EC2

Lecture 6 Template #1 - Create an EC2 Instance

Lecture 7 Template #2 - EC2 Web Server with User Data, EIP, and a Security Group

Lecture 8 Template #3 - Update a Stack with an EC2 IAM Role and Tags

Lecture 9 Delete a CloudFormation Stack

Section 3: Template Set #2 - S3

Lecture 10 Template #4 - S3 Bucket

Lecture 11 Template #5 - Update Stack to include Versioning and Public Access

Lecture 12 Template #6 - Rename a Bucket

Lecture 13 Cleanup

Section 4: Template Set #3 - Parameters

Lecture 14 Template #7 - Parameters

Lecture 15 Template #8 - SSM Parameters

Lecture 16 References

Section 5: Template Set #4 - DependsOn, Mappings, and Conditions

Lecture 17 Template #9 - Working with YAML and JSON Formatted Templates

Lecture 18 Template #10 - DependsOn

Lecture 19 Template #11 - Mappings and Outputs

Lecture 20 Template #12 - Conditions

Anyone who is just getting started with CloudFormation