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Cloud Automation – Define template by Cloud Formation

Table of contents

  1. About Terraform
  2. The Typical Terraform Workflow
  3. How many providers does Terraform support?
  4. Benefit of using Terraform in Cloud Automation
  5. How to define Terraform template in Cloud Automation

About CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation is a service provided by Amazon Web Services that enables users to model and manage infrastructure resources in an automated and secure manner.

Using CloudFormation, developers can define and provision AWS infrastructure resources using a JSON or YAML formatted Infrastructure as Code template

The Typical CloudFormation Workflow 

AWS CloudFormation lets you model, provision, and manage AWS and third-party resources by treating infrastructure as code.

How to define CloudFormation template in CSO - Cloud Automation

With Cloud Automation, we need to define modules of CloudFormation corresponding with Cloud Automation template launching's configuration:

Define provider in Terraform
Define infrastructure in Terraform
Define variable in Terraform
Define output in Terraform