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Nest Stacks with AWS CloudFormation

In this lab, you'll practice creating a reusable CloudFormation template which can be nested within other stacks. When you're finished with this lab you'll have created a reusable CloudFormation template and updated an existing CloudFormation stack to use this template.

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Level
Intermediate
Duration
30m
Released
Feb 10, 2021

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Lab Author: Garrett Hopper
Garrett Hopper
Garrett Hopper is a software developer who has worked across several different domains over the past 4 years with a focus on single page applications and cloud architecture. Lately he's been diving into functional programming and is engaged in an eternal tug-of-war between the beautiful flexibility of Lisp and the typed purity of Haskell
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Look at the existing CloudFormation stacks and learn about how CloudFormation stacks can be nested.

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Create a Reusable Template

Create a reusable CloudFormation template which creates an empty API Gateway API.

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Update the Root Stack

Update the root CloudFormation stack to use the newly created template instead of directly creating an API Gateway API.

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Follow along with the author’s guided walkthrough and build something new in your provided environment!

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On average, you retain 75% more of your learning if you get time for practice.

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