AWS CloudFormation - The best service to deploy your infrastructure on AWS
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What is AWS CloudFormation?
AWS CloudFormation gives developers and systems administrators a way to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and updating them in a predictable fashion. Use AWS CloudFormation’s sample templates or create templates to describe the AWS resources,…
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What is AWS CloudFormation?
AWS CloudFormation provides a common language for users to model
and provision AWS and third party application resources in a cloud
environment. AWS CloudFormation allows users to use programming languages or a
simple text file to model and provision, in an automated and secure manner, all
the resources needed for applications across all regions and accounts.
This provides a single source of truth for AWS and third party resources.
AWS CloudFormation Features
- Supported: Model infrastructure and application resources
- Supported: Automate & deploy
- Supported: Infrastructure as code
- Supported: Extensibility
- Supported: Authoring with JSON/YAML
- Supported: Authoring with familiar programming languages
- Supported: Safety controls
- Supported: Preview changes to your environment
- Supported: Dependency management
- Supported: Cross account & cross-region management
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AWS CloudFormation Competitors
- HashiCorp Terraform
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
- Puppet Enterprise (formerly Puppet Data Center Automation)
AWS CloudFormation Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific |
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AWS CloudFormation gives developers and systems administrators a way to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and updating them in a predictable fashion. Use AWS CloudFormation’s sample templates or create templates to describe the AWS resources, and any associated dependencies or runtime parameters, required to run an application. Users don’t need to figure out the order for provisioning AWS services or the subtleties of making those dependencies work. CloudFormation takes care of this. After the AWS resources are deployed, users can modify and update them in a controlled and predictable way, in effect applying version control to AWS infrastructure as with software.
HashiCorp Terraform are common alternatives for AWS CloudFormation.
The most common users of AWS CloudFormation are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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We use AWS CloudFormation to deploy our infrastructure on AWS platform. We have different accounts for different customers with the services being deployed via CloudFormation templates. All we have to do is modify the respective values of stages, environment variables for deployments and you could use the same template for deployment to different customers which makes our life easy.
- All resources can segregated based on stacks which provides greater visibility
- A complete audit trail of what went wrong while deploying a particular resource
- Automatically rollbacks if any service as part of CloudFormation results in an error
- The UI tool is useful
- Some services take a lot of time to create and it is frustrating after waiting for 20 mins some service fails, we have to retry whole process again.
- Deleting some resources is bit tricky if they are dependent on other stacks which is again dependent on some s3 bucket not being deleted
- Error description is not clear in some instances.
- Documentation needs to be improved
- Reusability
- Infrastructure Provisioning
- AWS quick support for any issues related to CloudFormation deployments
- Stack Visibility and segregation
- Faster deployment
- A one time setup which eliminates rework
- Disaster Recovery
Since the product I'm involved is primarily hosted on AWS we use CloudFormation but in some other products where we have hybrid cloud deployments we prefer Terraform which is opensource.
December 30, 2021
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We are using AWS CloudFormation to provision infrastructure on AWS in different AWS accounts for different environments. It is being used by the whole company. We have a product that requires infrastructure on the cloud to make it run. It helps us in continuous delivery and fast infrastructure deployment. As we have more than 20 environments, AWS CloudFormation helps us in using the same templates with different values for each environment, resulting in reusability and saving time and effort.
- Infrastructure Provisioning
- Stack Visibility
- Auto Rollback
- Console for History and Tracking
- Better Integration with AWS Services
- Error Description upon Failure Needs to be Improved.
- Slow to create, delete or update.
- Need to delete resources manually. It can ask before starting deletion whether to skip those resources or delete them.
- Infrastructure Provisioning
- Templating
- Visibility
- Reusability
- IaC
- Fast Delivery
- Fast Environment Spin Up
- IaC for Reusability and Disaster Recovery
- Terraform and by HashiCorp
As we have our whole infrastructure on AWS, that is why we selected AWS CloudFormation. AWS CloudFormation is better integrated with AWS services than other available products and also provides visibility and tracking on AWS. AWS CloudFormation is free while Terraform Enterprise is paid for teams. Terraform is good when we need to stay cloud-agnostic meaning multi-cloud infrastructure capability.
August 12, 2021
Great for what it does. Could be simpler to use, and have a wider use case in general.
We use it to expedite or deployment for VPCs. It creates almost all of the resources we need to for the most basic standup with a few parameters that get filled in. We can also use it to deploy smaller resources as well that don't require a full VPC standup. We're also looking into it for other use cases, but for the most part, it has greatly decreased the time to stand up a new VPC.
- Logging errors
- Template builder (for the more visually inclined).
- General documentation
- Better examples
- There are oddities with the yaml aspects of it, that make it a bit cumbersome
- A template for use cases that are easily fillable - or just some place to start.
- Resource deployment
- Logging
- Rollback when needed.
- + We can standup a VPC in minutes
- - It took a lot of inital time to set up
- + With logging/rollback, made testing much easier.
- Terraform and by HashiCorp
We didn't look into anything else as Cloudformation was "built-in" for AWS, it just kind of made sense to go with that. Terraform was something that we briefly looked into Terraform but decides to stick with Cloudformation because our task was relatively "simple". Apparently if it's a bit more complex, Terraform might be the way to go.
August 09, 2021
Robust Tool
It has been used across the whole organization for doing stacks. It has helped us for doing specific environments for testing changes per branch (using GIT). In this way, fewer bugs are introduced to Production. It also allows preserving resources as it is very configurable. We can form stacks with just a basic configuration or with all of them.
- Configuring Stacks
- Deploying Stacks
- Managing Stacks
- Sometimes stacks are hard to delete due to the correlation of resources or configurations
- It could be tricky at first time when doing configurations
- Creating Stacks
- Managing Stacks
- Doing specific configurations
- It has a positive ROI
- Less time inverted in bugs
- More stable source code
AWS CloudFormation has more features and robustness. It is suited for professional projects since it provides stability and a wide variety of options for configurations. These include not only dividing stacks by specific code changes, but also in regions. This allows more granularity and control over all stacks. If you want to delete them all just by a region, you can do it.