Deep Dive: Infrastructure as Code on AWS
summary
Practical checklist for AWS IaC: uses CloudFormation and AWS CDK, runs static checks with cfn-lint and security scans with cfn-nag, and validates deployments at scale with Taskcat so templates actually launch (not just parse). Recommends CDK constructs (service vs. pattern) with snapshot and assertion tests via Jest, shows CloudFormation Registry custom resource flow (model, handlers in Go/Java/Python, sam local invoke, cfn submit) and a unicorn-factory demo; notes 490+ CFN resource types and a customer running CDK across ~100 AWS accounts.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction to IaC
- 2:03Principles of delivery
- 7:16CloudFormation best practices
- 16:28Managing stack complexity
- 20:38Introduction to CDK
- 28:57Testing CDK applications
- 33:37CloudFormation registry
- 41:58Key takeaways and closing
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