New Training: Deploy Amazon EC2 Image Builder Components with AWS CloudFormation

In this 6-video skill, CBT Nuggets trainer Trevor Sullivan explains using AWS CloudFormation to rapidly deploy components, recipes, and pipelines in Amazon EC2 Image Builder. Watch this new AWS training.

Watch the full course: AWS Cloud Automation

This training includes:

• 6 videos

• 56 minutes of training

You’ll learn these topics in this skill:

• Introduction to AWS CloudFormation and EC2 Image Builder

• Create EC2 Image Builder Component with CloudFormation

• Create EC2 Image Builder Recipe with AWS CloudFormation

• Create AMI Distribution Settings with CloudFormation

• Add EC2 Image Builder Infrastructure Configuration

• Create Amazon EC2 Image Builder Pipeline with AWS CloudFormation

What Does CloudFormation Add to EC2 Image Builder?

EC2 Image Builder is a service from AWS that allows you to create, patch, test, distribute and share your Linux and Windows server images while CloudFormation is an AWS service that lets you automate creating, testing and deploying of custom Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). You can further integrate the two together.

By doing this, you can create, provision and update your EC2 Image Builder resources, such as pipelines and build components, in a manner that is not only safe and repeatable but automated, too. CloudFormation performs all the necessary operations in order to deploy your EC2 Image Builder pipelines. It can also rollback any changes automatically if it detects errors during the deployment.

You can find sample EC2 Image Builder CloudFormation templates, for both Linux and Windows, that demonstrate the deployment of EC2 Image Builder infrastructure to AWS accounts using CloudFormation.

EC2 Image Builder integration with CloudFormation is available for all AWS regions.