Skill
Nesting CloudFormation Templates
June 2020 with Bart Castle
- Intermediate
- 7 videos
- 47 mins
Join Bart Castle as he teaches you how to design and implement nested CloudFormation templates.
Learn how to use the CloudFormation Stack resource from within a parent template, how to validate CloudFormation template syntax by using the AWS Command Line tools, and how to install and use the Python-based cfn-lint utility in order to run deep syntax and logic checking on CloudFormation templates. Gain an understanding of the parameters and outputs section of a CloudFormation template so you can pass values between parent and child templates.
Learn how to use the CloudFormation Stack resource from within a parent template, how to validate CloudFormation template syntax by using the AWS Command Line tools, and how to install and use the Python-based cfn-lint utility in order to run deep syntax and logic checking on CloudFormation templates. Gain an understanding of the parameters and outputs section of a CloudFormation template so you can pass values between parent and child templates.
Recommended ExperienceAWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional Related Job Functions
- A basic understanding of IT services and their uses in the AWS Cloud platform is recommended, but not required.
- One year of hands-on experience designing available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, and scalable distributed systems on AWS is recommended, but not required.
- PC, MAC, or Linux system with Internet access
- Free tier (or higher) account with AWS
- IT Professional
- System administrator
- Network administrator
- System engineer
- Network engineer
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