The goal of this project is to give you a rocket start into AWS CloudFormation. It should lead you through the process of setting up a basic infrastructure in AWS in a few minutes, while covering the most common services.

The infrastructure focuses on the following advantages AWS provides:

• Scalable resources (virtual servers, relational databases)
• Security (Firewall, IAM Roles, SSL)
• Continuous Integration and Delivery (only a push to Github will update our servers)

The infrastructure contains a load balancer, virtual servers, a database and a Continuous Integration and Delivery environment. A Spring Boot RESTful sample application will be deployed and managed by our environment.

1. The basic infrastructure in only five minutes
2. Description of the basic template
3. Infrastructure with AWS CodePipeline for Continuous Integration and Delivery
4. Infrastructure with Jenkins for Continuous Integration and Delivery
   
   

If you have any feedback/questions, we'd love to get in touch with you! :)

• yandy.piedra@zuehlke.com
• raphael.lueckl@zuehlke.com

Or join our telegram group: @awsCloudformationTutorial

Disclaimer: This project is WIP. We continually seek to improve it!

• Setup basic cloud environment
• Setup CodePipeline
• How to CodePipeline
• Setup Jenkins
• How to Jenkins
• Minimalize/optimize application
• Output the name of the AutoScalingGroup
• Explain Github-Tokena and how to obtain them
• Tighten SecurityGroup rules
• On destroy stack: S3 bucket needs to be cleaned up automatically for the CodePipeline template
• Avoid 1-line YAML-strings within the templates
• Console commands for CloudFormation are way to big. Separate parts to JSON file.