AWS CloudFormation is an Infrastructure-as-Code solution to model and provision AWS resources in a predictable and repeatable way. This repository contains examples of AWS CloudFormation templates intended to be used for learning purposes.
You can create CloudFormation stacks from the example templates either via the CloudFormation Console or via the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI). If using the AWS CLI, you can use the following example command to help you get started.
aws cloudformation create-stack --stack-name <stack-name> --template-body file://<path-to-template>/<template>
Before you can create CloudFormation stacks with templates that reference local artifacts, you will need to upload those artifacts to a S3 bucket. You can do this by using the aws cloudformation package command.
aws cloudformation package --template-file <path-to-template>/<template> --s3-bucket <s3-bucket>
This command returns a copy of your template, replacing references to local artifacts with the S3 location where the command uploaded the artifacts.
Examples of artifacts that CloudFormation templates may reference include;
- Nested CloudFormation templates
- Source code for an AWS Lambda function
- OpenAPI/Swagger documents for an AWS API Gateway REST API
When developing CloudFormation templates in this repository, please remember to lint your templates. We use cfn-lint and Prettier.
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For detailed information about how to use AWS CloudFormation, check out their documentation at;