Simplify your Infrastructure Management using AWS CloudFormation

In this blog, we'll explore what AWS CloudFormation is, why it's essential, and dive into a practical demonstration to showcase its capabilities.

From understanding the basics to creating your first CloudFormation stack, you'll gain valuable insights and hands-on experience, enabling you to automate your AWS infrastructure management effectively.

Let's explore the AWS CloudFormation and discover how to harness the power of Infrastructure as Code for your projects.

2. Create a CloudFormation Template file

For creating the template I'm using YAML you can use JSON also

Resources:

  NiteshOsUsingCF:

    Type: AWS::EC2::Instance

    Properties:

      ImageId: ami-099b3d23e336c2e83

      InstanceType: t2.micro

      AvailabilityZone: ap-south-1a



  NiteshOs2:

    Type: AWS::EC2::Instance

    Properties:

      ImageId: ami-099b3d23e336c2e83

      InstanceType: t2.micro

      AvailabilityZone: ap-south-1a

here you can see I'm defining that I want to launch 2 EC2 instances with instance type t2.micro and availability zone as ap-south-1a

You can get the ImageId from the AWS AMI catalog, select the image of your choice, and copy its AMI ID

3. Upload Template to CloudFormation

Like here I've given my name as NiteshStack

5. Configure Stack

Configure the stack according to your need

Now you can see the resource creation process is initiated

Here we can see that new EC2 instances at ap-south-1a are created

Once you delete the stack your resources will be deleted and in our case, the EC2 instances will be deleted

That's how you can utilize AWS CloudFormation service to simplify the Infrastructure Management

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