AWS CloudFormation - Beginner to Advanced (Hands-On Guide)

This AWS CloudFormation course is a fully handson course and will start with absolute basics and build on the basics to help you gain expertise at CloudFormation to be able write any enterprise grade CloudFormation stack in no time.

• Absolutely no coding or YAML background is required.

Below are the topics that will be covered as part of this course.

AWS CloudFormation - Introduction

• Course Introduction and Outline

• CloudFormation - Pre-Requisites, Basic Terminology and Template Anatomy

AWS CloudFormation - Resources, Parameters and Metadata

• Resources – S3, EC2 and VPC

• Parameters – S3 and EC2

• Metadata

• Resources, Parameters and Metadata - Tying it all together

Enterprise Use Case 1 – Web Application

• WebApplication - Architecture

• WebApplication - Launch Configuration and Auto Scaling Group

• WebApplication - Application LoadBalancer

• WebApplication - CloudWatch Log Group and SNS

• WebApplication - CloudWatch Alarm

• WebApplication - Hosted Zone and ResourceRecords

CloudFormation General Concepts - Change Sets, CloudFormation IAM Role, Resource Deletion Policies

• Change Sets - Theory

• Change Sets - Handson

• CloudFormation IAM Role - Theory

• CloudFormation IAM Role - HandsOn

• CloudFormation - Resource Deletion (Delete, Retail and Snapshot) - Theory

• CloudFormation - Resource Deletion (Delete, Retail and Snapshot) - HansdsOn

Launching CloudFormation using AWS CI-CD Pipeline

• AWS CI-CD Introduction

• Deploying CloudFormation using AWS CI-CD Pipeline without Parameters

• Deploying CloudFormation using AWS CI-CD Pipeline with Parameters/Configuration File

Enterprise Use Case 2 - AWS Account Baseline VPC Setup

• Architecture

• Virtual Private Cloud

• Public and Private Subnets

• Internet Gateway

• Route Table and Routes

• Security Group

• NACL

AWS CloudFormation – Mappings, Output, Conditions, Rules and Transform

• AWS CloudFormation Mappings

• AWS CloudFormation Outputs

• AWS CloudFormation Conditions

• AWS CloudFormation Rules and Transform

AWS CloudFormation General Concepts - ChangeSets, IAM Role, Deletion Policy

• AWS CloudFormation Change Sets

• AWS CloudFormation Resource Deletion (Delete, Snapshot, Retain)

• AWS CloudFormation IAM Role

Following AWS Services will be Coded in Cloudformation in this course using YAML

- EC2

- S3

- VPC

- Public and Private Subnet

- IG

- Route Table

- NACL

- Security Group

- NAT Gateway

- Tags

- Route 53 Hosted Zone

- Resource Records

- Application Load Balancer

- Auto Scaling Group

- Launch Configuration

- CloudWatch Log Group

- CloudWatch Alarm

- SNS

- Deployment using CI-CD Pipeline

AWS CloudFormation Concepts to be discussed in the course

- AWSTemplateFormatVersion

- Description

- Metadata

- Parameters

- Rules

- Mappings

- Conditions

- Transform

- Resources

- Outputs

- ChangeSets

- CloudFormation IAM Role

- Deletion Policy