Cloudformation gives the ease to have pre-defined templates for different resources which we can use to quickly launch those services on AWS. There are times where we need to quickly spin up some resources in AWS to test something. In this post I will be explaining some basic commands to control some Cloudformation functionalities. An editor for the Cloudformation Template.Based on which OS you are using the corresponding command line terminal will do To follow along the commands, there are a few Pre requisites which you will have to make sure to have: It is available on different terminal programs and can be used accordingly based on what OS you are using: CLI proves very useful for CI/CD pipelines where the pipeline can run the CLI commands to achieve various tasks on AWS. Using the CLI and through a minimal configuration you can have a simplistic interface and have the same functionality as the web console. It provides a level of ease to just open the command line and execute the command to manage an AWS service.ĪWS CLI is an open source tool which you can install on a machine and using that run various commands on the console. AWS provides a similar interface which is an alternative way to access and manage the services directly from the command line console. You can execute different commands on the console to perform a specific task. The whole Code base is available on my Github Repo: Here What is CLIĪ CLI( Command Line Interface) is a way to access a service using just some commands on a command line. In each post I will pick up an AWS service and provide a step by step guide to show how the service can be managed from command line. This post is first of many more posts where I will describe how to perform some basic management functions on various AWS services. So I am planning to write these series of posts for such beginners who are trying to learn the CLI way of doing things on AWS. When I started learning AWS and wanted to run the CLI commands I struggled to understand the commands from the documentation and had to do lot of trial and errors to finally make them work. Yes AWS provides a whole command line only experience through which all of the AWS services can be managed. To extend on that I am coming up with multiple posts to walk through some basic frequently used commands using which various AWS services can be controlled or managed. I agree it may seem overwhelming at first but once we get used to it, a command line is our friend. We all love to work with command line right? At least I love the ease of just opening a console and write a command to accomplish a task. AWS CLI Series : How to use CloudFormation
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