Creating infra with CloudFormation locally

In this video, we’ll utilize AWS CloudFormation to deploy AWS resources locally through LocalStack. These resources include DynamoDB tables, API Gateway, and VPC. We’ll use awslocal, a wrapper CLI that serves as a wrapper on the aws CLI to execute Terraform commands against LocalStack.

Here’s a breakdown of the steps we’ll take:

• We’ll guide you through the entire CloudFormation Stack, demonstrating various configuration options for creating the infrastructure for our application.
• After deploying the CloudFormation Stack, we’ll examine some outputted resources, including API URLs, ECS cluster names, VPC ID, and more.
• Finally, we’ll verify the deployment and confirm the creation of resources using the Resource Browser.

Further reading:

• What is AWS CloudFormation?
• What features are supported in LocalStack CloudFormation?
• LocalStack CloudFormation Coverage

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