AWS CloudFormation - Hands On

Last article we studied what is AWS CloudFormation in this article we will create a basic AWS cloud formation template. To setup a template in AWS CloudFormation follow the steps below:-

• Search for AWS CloudFormation in the search bar and go to AWS cloud formation

• You will get to the dashboard click on create stack
  

• In the prepare template select Template is ready. Here we can select other options to like use Sample template which uses an already created template or you can also choose to Create template in designer which helps you create templates visually.
  

• After that select upload a template file You can also select a templete file form your S3 bucket. Upload the following aws-example.yaml file
  

Resources:
  HelloBucket:
    Type: AWS::S3::Bucket

You can also click on View in Designer to visually see how your stacks looks like

• Click next enter a stack name like CloudFormationdemo and click next
  

• Next you can add tags to identify your cloud formation resources and r
  oles to give access to various services we don't need roles and set the tag as name CloudFormation you can use any other tag.

. Then click on next. You can review all your values are correct and click on create stack

• It will show you all the events that happened while creating a cloud formation template
  

• Go to your S3 console and you can see that there is a bucket Cloudformationdemo
  

• This is way to create a Cloud Formation Stack don't forget to delete your CloudFormation stack if you are doing this as a demo

Next we will study about Amazon Beanstalk.