Cloudformation

Question 1

____ is a service that allows you to manage, configure, and provision your AWS infrastructure as code.

Answer 1

Cloudfront

Question 2

_____ are defiened using a Cf template

Answer 2

resources

Question 3

CF integrates the template and makes the appropriate ____ calls to create the resources you have defined.

Answer 3

API

Question 4

Cloudformation supports ____ and ____.

Answer 4

Yaml and JSON

Question 5

WHich of the following are CF benefits:

• Infra is provisioned consistently, with fewer mistakes
• Less time and effort than configuring things manually
• You can version control and peer review your templates
• FRee to use (charged for what you create)
• Can be used to manage updates and dependencies
• CAn be used to rollback and delete teh entire stack as well.

Answer 5

All of the above

Question 6

___ or ____ template is used to describe the endstate of the infra you are either provisioning or changing

Answer 6

Yaml or Json

Question 7

After creating the template, you upload it to CloudFormation using ____

Answer 7

S3

Question 8

CF reads the templates and makes ___ calls on your behalf

Answer 8

API

Question 9

The resulting resources are called a _____

Answer 9

stack

Question 10

Put the CF template structure in order-

InstanceID:

Value: !Ref EC2 Instance

Outputs:

Description: The Instance ID

Answer 10

Outputs:

InstanceID:

Description: The Instance ID

Value: !Ref EC2 Instance

Question 11

____ is the only mandatory section of the CF template

Answer 11

resources

Question 12

Remember the ____ section is used to reference additional code stored in S3, allowing for code re-use

ie: for Lambda code or template snippets/reusable pieces of CF code.

Answer 12

Transform

Question 13

_____ an extension to CF to define serverless apps

Answer 13

(SAM) Serverless Application model

Question 14

T or F

SAM provides simplified syntax for defining serverless resources: APIs, Lambda Functions, DynamoDB Tables, etc.

Answer 14

True

Question 15

Use the SAM ____ to package your deployment code; upload it to S3 and deploy your serverless app.

Answer 15

CLI

Question 16

SAM CLI commands

Answer 16

sam pacakge \

–template-file ./mytemplate.yml

–output -template -file sam-template.yml\

–s3-bucket s3-bucket-name

Question 17

SAM Deploy Commands

Answer 17

–template-file sam-template.yml\

–stack-name mystack\

–capabilities CAPABILITY_IAM

Question 18

SAM = ___ ____ ____

Answer 18

serverless application model

Question 19

SAM allows you to define and privision serverless apps using ____

Answer 19

CloudFormation

Question 20

SAM uses the SAM ____ commands to package and deploy:

SAM ____: packages your app and uploads to S3

SAM ____: deploys your serverless app using CF

1. deploy
2. CLI
3. package

Answer 20

CLI; package;deploy

Question 21

CF Nested stacks

Allow _____ of code for common use cases

ie: standard config for a LB, web server, app server, etc.

Answer 21

Re-use

Question 22

CloudFormation Nested Stack

instead of copying out the code each time, create a standard ____ for each common use case and reference from within your CF _____.

Answer 22

template

Question 23

____ ____ allow you to resuse CF code so you don’t need to copy/paste every time.

Answer 23

nested stacks

Question 24

nested stacks are really useful for ___ used configs

ie: for LB, web app servers.

Answer 24

frequently

Question 25

Nested Stacks

simple create a CF template, store it in S3, and you can reference it in the ____ section of any CD template using the stack _____ type.

Answer 25

resource