AWS CloudFormation - Technical Introduction
Presentation deck for a technical introduction on infrastructure-as-code with AWS CloudFormation, on CloudFormation basics, and on CloudFormation best practices.
Extend AWS CloudFormation and AWS CDK with third-party resources
Presentation deck for the BOA403 session of AWS re:Invent 2022, discussing how to build, test, and submit AWS CloudFormation resource types to the AWS CloudFormation Registry, so that you can then consume them with CloudFormation, the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), and AWS Cloud Control API.
Develop AWS CloudFormation templates to manage your infrastructure
Presentation deck for the DOP308 session of AWS re:Invent 2022, on using AWS CloudFormation to describe your infrastructure with code, and on how to use AWS CloudFormation best practices that include shortening the feedback loop, and using lifecycle and ownership criteria to distribute resources in templates you write.
Automating cross-account CI/CD pipelines
Presentation deck for the DOP402 session of AWS re:Invent 2021, on why it is important to adopt a cross-account strategy for your workloads, and on how to use the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) to describe and build a Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline for cross-account deployments. See also the video of the re:Invent session.