The ultimate AWS CloudFormation deployment guide
Blog post from New Relic
AWS CloudFormation is a tool that allows users to automate the provisioning and management of infrastructure resources across AWS through a single text file, serving as the definitive source for cloud environments. It supports Infrastructure as Code (IaC), enabling benefits like version control and collaboration, and offers features such as Change Sets, Rollback on failure, Stack policies, Nested stacks, and Drift detection to enhance infrastructure stability and security. The article provides a tutorial on deploying an Amazon Linux v2 EC2 instance using CloudFormation, which integrates with New Relic for infrastructure monitoring. It highlights the importance of debugging JSON and scripting errors separately and recommends creating and testing scripts in a live environment before embedding them in CloudFormation templates. The tutorial serves as a foundation that can be expanded upon, emphasizing the flexibility and scalability of CloudFormation in managing complex AWS environments.