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Components

The provisioning of AWS resources with AWS CloudFormation involves several major components as follows:

  • Template – a blueprint for building your AWS resources, used to create, update or delete a CloudFormation stack (see below)
  • Stack – an instantiated collection of related AWS resources, as defined by the stack's  s CloudFormation template (see above)
 
  • Change Set – a summary of proposed changes to AWS resources provisioned by the CloudFormation stack (see above)


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CloudFormation can also be used to provision most deployment components used by other services supported by Tasks for AWS, instead of using the respective built in dedicated tasks - refer to the Alternative workflow via CloudFormation section within the following overviews for details:

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Workflow

The provisioning workflow is are illustrated by the diagram diagrams in How Does AWS CloudFormation Work?:

Provisioning without change sets

This comprises the following activities:

  1. design a template – this can be done manually via any JSON or YAML capable text editor, or with the AWS CloudFormation Designer
  2. (optional) upload the template to an Amazon S3 bucket – see the Upload File(s) action of the Amazon S3 Object task
  3. create a stack from the template – see the Create Stack action of the AWS CloudFormation Stack task
  4. (optional) update the stack (with or without changes to the template) Directly – see the Update Stack action of the AWS CloudFormation Stack taskVia

Provisioning with change sets

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This comprises the following activities:

  1. design a template – this can be done manually via any JSON or YAML capable text editor, or with the AWS CloudFormation Designer
  2. (optional) upload the template to an Amazon S3 bucket – see the Upload File(s) action of the Amazon S3 Object task
  3. create a stack from the template – see the Create Stack action of the AWS CloudFormation Stack task
  4. (optional) create and execute a change set to update the stack (with or without changes to the template) – see the Create Stack Change Set and  and Execute Stack Change Set actions  actions of the the AWS CloudFormation Stack task

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

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