Deploying an Application

• To deploy an application (WordPress) we might need to create and configure
  • Networking components
  • Storage components
  • Database Components
  • Compute Components
• Now lets assume you are company which sells wordpress and you need to deploy wordpress in your customers aws accounts
• This requires some kind of automation to save time.
• Lets understand different ways of creating resources in AWS.
  • Console:
    • Creating resources by browser based application called as AWS Console
    • When to use: When you are creating resources where repetition is not expected.
  • CLI:
    • Creating resources by building Commands
    • When to use: To create the resources multiple times
    • CLI is good for repetition but if the configuration or options to the user are to be provided the scripting skills come to play.
  • SDK
    • Creating resources by writing code
    • When to use: To create the resources from some application (dropbox)
  • Template:
    • Watch the classroom recording to understand the steps followed
    • To create a reusable deployment of infra or infra-provisioning with configurable input parameters
      

To Create cloudformation template what do we need

• We need to know the manual steps and possible inputs to be used
• To create a template we can use
  • json
  • yaml
• Refer Here for video tutorial on json and yaml
• To write the template we will be using visual studio code