AWS CloudFormation-Beginner to Advanced (Hands-On with YAML)

Welcome to the most comprehensive AWS CloudFormation Course on Udemy from an instructor with actual enterprise hands-on implementation experience migrating more than 200+ workloads for Fortune 100 companies.

This AWS CloudFormation course is a fully handson course and will start with absolute basics and build on the basics to help you gain expertise at CloudFormation (YAML) to be able write any enterprise grade CloudFormation stack in no time.

• Absolutely no coding or YAML background is required.
• 25+ AWS Services covered (AWS Lambda, API Gateway, REST API Resources & Methods, IAM Roles, Route 53, ALB, EC2, S3, Auto Scaling, Launch Configuration, Cloud Watch Logs, SNS, VPC and many others
• Three End to End Enterprise Use Cases -:
  • Banking Serverless App – API Gateway, AWS Lambda and S3
  • Web Application – Route 53, ALB, EC2 AutoScaling, CloudWatch Logs and Alarms, SNS
  • AWS Account Baseline VPC Setup – VPC, Subnets, Internet Gateway, Route Tables, Security Group  and others

Below are the topics that will be covered as part of this course.

AWS CloudFormation – Introduction

• Course Introduction and Outline
• CloudFormation – Pre-Requisites, Basic Terminology and Template Anatomy

AWS CloudFormation – Resources, Parameters and Metadata

• Resources – S3, EC2 and VPC
• Parameters – S3 and EC2
• Metadata
• Resources, Parameters and Metadata – Tying it all together

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

CloudFormation General Concepts – Change Sets, CloudFormation IAM Role, Resource Deletion Policies

• Change Sets – Theory
• Change Sets – Handson
• CloudFormation IAM Role – Theory
• CloudFormation IAM Role – HandsOn
• CloudFormation – Resource Deletion (Delete, Retail and Snapshot) – Theory
• CloudFormation – Resource Deletion (Delete, Retail and Snapshot) – HansdsOn

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

Enterprise Use Case 2 – AWS Serveless Banking Use Case – API Gateway, AWS Lambda and S3

• Architecture
• AWS S3 Bucket
• AWS Lambda Execution Role
• AWS Lamba
• AWS API Gateway – REST API, Resources
• AWS API Gateway – REST Method and Deployment
• Lambda Invoke Permission
• End-to End Demo

Enterprise Use Case 3 – AWS Account Baseline VPC Setup

• Architecture
• Virtual Private Cloud
• Public and Private Subnets
• Internet Gateway
• Route Table and Routes
• Security Group
• NACL

AWS CloudFormation – Mappings, Output, Conditions, Rules and Transform

• AWS CloudFormation Mappings
• AWS CloudFormation Outputs
• AWS CloudFormation Conditions
• AWS CloudFormation Rules and Transform

AWS CloudFormation General Concepts – ChangeSets, IAM Role, Deletion Policy

• AWS CloudFormation Change Sets
• AWS CloudFormation Resource Deletion (Delete, Snapshot, Retain)
• AWS CloudFormation IAM Role

AWS Cloud Development Kit – Implementing AWS API Gateway, Lambda and S3 using CDK v2

• AWS CDK Introduction and Benefits
• AWS CDK Pre-Requisites
• Architecture for Serverless Use Case
• S3 Bucket creation with CDK v2
• IAM Role and S3 creation with CDK v2
• Lambda, IAM Role and S3 creation with CDK v2
• API Gateway, Lambda, IAM Role and S3 creation with CDK v2
• Optional (How to write the Lambda Code) – From my Udemy Course on AWS Lambda

Following AWS Services will be Coded in Cloudformation in this course using YAML

– AWS Lambda

– AWS API Gateway – REST API, Resources and Methods

– AWS Lambda Execution Role

– EC2

– S3

– VPC

– Public and Private Subnet

– IG

– Route Table

– NACL

– Security Group

– 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

– Lambda InvokePermission

– API Gateway Deployment

AWS CloudFormation Concepts to be discussed in the course

– AWSTemplateFormatVersion

– Description

– Metadata

– Parameters

– Rules

– Mappings

– Conditions

– Transform

– Resources

– Outputs

– ChangeSets

– CloudFormation IAM Role

– Deletion Policy