Infrastructure as code and deploying infrastructure in an automated and repeatable manner is one of the highest demanded skills within the tech industry. Working in the cloud, you will need to be comfortable with both of those concepts, and this course will walk you through the different possibilities of creating, updating, and deleting infrastructure within AWS using CloudFormation and its many capabilities. In this course, Updating Stacks with AWS CloudFormation, you’ll learn to provision updates to your infrastructure in a repeatable and automatic way. First, you’ll explore CloudFormation stack types. Next, you’ll discover how to utilize Change Sets within CloudFormation. Finally, you’ll learn how to detect infrastructure configuration drift within your organization. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge about CloudFormation Stacks needed to automate your infrastructure deployments in a repeatable fashion.
Author Name: Andru Estes
Author Description:
Andru is an experienced architect and engineer who has had many years of hands on experience with numerous cloud and virtualization technologies. Learning the newest technologies is what really drives him, and it is icing on the cake that he has the ability to teach others how to use what he has learned. Teaching the skill sets he has acquired can have lasting impacts on students, and that to him is amazing.

Table of Contents

• Course Overview
  1min
• CloudFormation Change Sets and Nested Stacks
  51mins
• Organizational Compliance within CloudFormation
  20mins