CloudFormation building blocks

Templates components (one course section for each):

1. Resources: your AWS resources declared in the template
2. Parameters: the dynamic inputs for your template
3. Mappings: the static variables for your template
4. Outputs: References to what has been created
5. Conditionals: List of conditions to perform resource creation
6. Metadata

Template deployment

In order to deploy these template we have two way -

Manual way:

• Editing templates in the CloudFormation Designer
• Using the console to input parameters, etc
• I’ll mostly do this way for learning purposes

Automated way:

• Editing templates in a YAML file
• Using the AWS CLI (Command Line Interface) to deploy the templates