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

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

• No coding or YAML background is required.

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

Part 1: AWS CloudFormation – Introduction

• Course Introduction and Outline
• CloudFormation – Pre-Requisites, Basic Terminology, and Template Anatomy

Part 2: AWS CloudFormation – Resources, Parameters, and Metadata

• Resources – S3, EC2 and VPC
• Parameters – S3 and EC2
• Metadata
• Resources, Parameters, and Metadata – Tying it all together

Part 3: 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

Part 4: 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
• NAIL

Part 5: 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

Part 6: AWS CloudFormation – Mappings, Output, Conditions, Rules, and Transform

• AWS CloudFormation Mappings
• AWS CloudFormation Outputs
• AWS CloudFormation Conditions
• AWS CloudFormation Rules and Transform

Part 7: AWS CloudFormation – Other Key Concepts to Know

• AWS CloudFormation Key Concepts to know

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

– EC2

– S3

– VPC

– Public and Private Subnet

– IG

– Route Table

– NAIL

– 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: