From the course: AWS CloudFormation for Beginners
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CloudFormation in four minutes
From the course: AWS CloudFormation for Beginners
CloudFormation in four minutes
- [Host] AWS CloudFormation is one of the pioneer tools that allowed infrastructure to be expressed as code. CloudFormation allows you to express AWS resources in a text file in either a JSON format or YAML format. Let's see an example. Here is a snippet of a CloudFormation template that is defining an AWS security group for a typical web server. First, we give it a name. In this case, it is called webSG, short for web security group. Next, we specify that webSG is a resource of type security group and then define it's properties. The same properties you will define if you were creating a security group from the AWS console. First, we have a human readable description. Next, we have three ingress rules. The first two rules are allowing TCP traffic from the entire 10.0.0.0/8 side of glock, on ports 80 and 443. This will be a very typical ingress rule for our web server, to be accessible from within our corporate network. The third rule allows traffic onport 80 from members of another…
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