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Updating Stacks with AWS CloudFormation

This course will teach you how you can automate updates within CloudFormation templates for both single accounts and organizations.

Andru Estes - Pluralsight course - Updating Stacks with AWS CloudFormation
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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.

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Andru Estes - Pluralsight course - Updating Stacks with AWS CloudFormation
Andru Estes

Andru is a technical evangelist who loves to learn, implement and teach the newest technologies, especially anything related to cloud and virtualization.

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