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Category: Cloudformation

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Lono CloudFormation Framework Introduction Part 7: Variables and Loops

Tung Nguyen Tung Nguyen · February 11, 2020 · 4 min read
The Lono DSL is powerful because it allows you to use the Ruby programming language to generate CloudFormation templates. You can use conditional logic constructs that you’re used to: loops, variables, if statements, methods, etc. However, the Lono DSL tries not to impose itself and take over CloudFormation’s declarative nature. Instead, Lono’s approach is to add programming “sprinkles” on top of CloudFormation. Ultimately, you get the best of both worlds.
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Lono CloudFormation Framework Introduction Part 6: Lono Seed

Tung Nguyen Tung Nguyen · February 03, 2020 · 4 min read
When working with CloudFormation, you usually configure parameters for the template. The lono seed command helps with this step by generating a starter param file. It evaluates the template itself to generate the starter example values. We’ll use the demo blueprint we created in Lono CloudFormation Framework Introduction Part 1: EC2 Instance.
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Lono CloudFormation Framework Introduction Part 4: Layering

Tung Nguyen Tung Nguyen · November 07, 2019 · 3 min read
In this post, we’ll cover Lono Layering. Layering can be used to build separate environments like a development and production environment. For example, the production environment might have different instance sizes. This can be accomplished with Lono layering.
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Introducing BoltOps Pro: Infrastructure As Code

Tung Nguyen Tung Nguyen · October 27, 2019 · 4 min read
It’s crazy to think that I’ve been working with AWS for over a decade now. I’ve been lucky enough to have built and ran one of the largest sites in the world (billions of pageviews/month). I’m even more fortunate now to be working with some awesome BoltOps clients. I’ve learned and continue to learn a lot about what it takes to build AWS infrastructure. BoltOps Pro is the result of those years of experience and hard-fought learning lessons put together.
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AWS CloudFormation Declarative Infrastructure Code Tutorial

Tung Nguyen Tung Nguyen · February 14, 2018 · 12 min read
If you are working with AWS heavily, you should look into a powerful tool called CloudFormation. Taking the time to learn CloudFormation is an investment that is easily returned to you in the form of powerful automation. In this guide, we’ll provide a gentle introduction to CloudFormation, and by the end, you’ll have the skills to start using it in your own AWS workflow.
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Summarize CloudFormation Required Parameters with jq

Tung Nguyen Tung Nguyen · September 17, 2017 · 1 min read
Shortly after the last video CloudFormation Templates and jq Tips, I wanted to know what the required parameters in a CloudFormation template were. This is also an easy task with jq. I’ll show you how to use jq to quickly summarize the required and optional parameters in a CloudFormation template in this post. It’s a one-liner 😁
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Summarize CloudFormation Resources with jq Tip

Tung Nguyen Tung Nguyen · September 16, 2017 · 4 min read
I’ll go over a useful way to summarize CloudFormation templates resources with jq. This is useful when you are looking at a CloudFormation template and trying to understand it. We’ll download an example CloudFormation template and use run through some useful jq commands summarize the resources defined in a CloudFormation template. Note, I’ll only show the output that is useful for understanding.
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Why Generate CloudFormation Templates with Lono

Tung Nguyen Tung Nguyen · April 09, 2017 · 4 min read
Writing CloudFormation templates becomes difficult to manage once you start using it heavily. Whether it is one complicated template or multiple simple templates, maintaining the templates are a decent amount of work. This post talks about why I built a tool called lono to help manage and generate a large amount of CloudFormation templates.
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