Agus Kurniawan - Learn CloudFormation: Write, deploy, and maintain your AWS infrastructure

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Agus Kurniawan is a lecturer, researcher, IT consultant, and author. He has more than 16 years of experience in various software and hardware development projects for various companies. He also has been delivering materials in training and workshops, and delivering technical writing. He has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for 13 years in a row. He is currently doing some research related to software engineering, machine learning, networking, and security systems at the Faculty of Computer Science, University of Indonesia.

Gajanan Chandgadkar has more than 12 years of IT experience. He has spent more than 6 years in the USA, helping large enterprises architect, migrate, and deploy applications in AWS. He is an AWS-certified solutions architect professional and a certified DevOps professional with more than seven certifications in trending technologies. He is also a technology enthusiast who has vast experience in different topics, such as application development, container technology, and continuous delivery.

Currently, he is working with Happiest Minds Technologies as an associate DevOps architect.

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As the Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure is gradually moving towards the cloud, managing cloud-related tasks efficiently continues to be a challenge for system administrators. CloudFormation is a language that was developed for managing infrastructure-related services efficiently on AWS, and its features help secure the AWS resource deployment process. Learn CloudFormation serves as a fundamental guide that will kick-start your journey with CloudFormation. We will introduce you to the basic concepts of infrastructure as code (IaC) and the AWS services required to implement automation and infrastructure management. Then, we deep dive into concepts such as CloudFormation mapping, conditions, limits, output, and EC2. In the concluding chapters, you will manage the entire AWS infrastructure using CloudFormation templates.

By the end of this book, you will be up and running with IaC with CloudFormation.

Learn CloudFormation is for cloud engineers, system administrators, cloud architects, or any stakeholders working in the field of cloud development or cloud administration. Basic knowledge of AWS is necessary.

, Introducing AWS CloudFormation , will introduce AWS CloudFormation and explain how to get started with AWS CloudFormation.

, Building Your First AWS CloudFormation Project , will explain how to get started building your first AWS CloudFormation project. The project will be implemented with a step-by-step practical approach.

, Developing AWS CloudFormation Templates , will explore how to develop AWS CloudFormation templates. Readers will learn how to create AWS CloudFormation templates using JSON and YAML. Readers also will be introduced to using AWS CloudFormation Designer to develop AWS CloudFormation templates in GUI mode.

, AWS CloudFormation StackSets , will explore the basics of AWS CloudFormation StackSets. By the end of this chapter, readers will know how to build and manage AWS CloudFormation StackSets.

, Building Lambda Functions Using AWS CloudFormation , will take readers through the process of deploying Lambda Functions using AWS CloudFormation.

, AWS CloudFormation Security , will deal with securing resources that are deployed using AWS CloudFormation.