From the course: AWS CloudFormation for Beginners
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Anatomy of a CloudFormation template
From the course: AWS CloudFormation for Beginners
Anatomy of a CloudFormation template
- [Instructor] A cloud formation template consists of multiple sections. Typical sections include the template's format version, description, parameters, resources, and outputs. The format version defines the format in which this template is written. This is allows the cloud formation servers to use the correct interpreters for each template, thus enabling users to continue to use the older versions, even when newer format versions have been released. The description field is just a human-readable description of the template, intended to provide the template user with instructions and information. Parameters section consists of a list of parameters that are used in the template, and anyone who wants to use this template must provide the parameter values in order to create a stack from it. The onus is on the template developer to decide what values they would accept as parameters, and which ones they would like to fix in the template. Values typically exposed as parameters are the…
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