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

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

This course is for beginners and intermediates who are learning AWS CloudFormation without coding or YAML experience.

What you’ll learn

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

Develop expertise in writing AWS CloudFormation using YAML – No previous coding experience required
The course is designed for absolute beginners and starts with writing basic AWS CloudFormation services to advanced end-to-end use cases
The course shows you more than 20+ AWS Services (Route 53, ALB, EC2, S3, CW Logs, SNS, VPC, and many others) coded using AWS CloudFormaion YAML step-by-step
Two real-world enterprise use cases to be demonstrated end to end
Learn about Resources, Parameters, Metadata, Mappings, Conditions, Rules, Output, Transform

Requirements

No programming experience or YAML/JSON experience is required.

Description

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:

Who this course is for:

This course is meant for learners who want to learn AWS CloudFormation in a simple yet comprehensive way in the shortest possible time even with no previous coding experience.