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# awesome-cloudformation [![Awesome](https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/d7305f38d29fed78fa85652e3a63e154dd8e8829/media/badge.svg)](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome)



> Awesome curated list of AWS CloudFormation links



If you want to contribute to this list (please do), send me a pull request.



## Table of Contents



- [AWS Documentation](#aws)

- [Articles](#articles)

- [Videos](#videos)

- [Tools](#tools)

- [DSLs and Generators](#dsls)

- [IDEs](#ides)

- [Examples](#examples)

- [Comparing, Evaluating, Integrating with other Tools](#other-tools)






## AWS Documentation



* [User Guide](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/Welcome.html) - AWS Official User Guide

* [API Reference](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html) - AWS Official API Reference






## Articles



[Build Continuous Delivery Workflows for CloudFormation Stacks](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/codepipeline-update-build-continuous-delivery-workflows-for-cloudformation-stacks/) - 

describes how to setup a continuous delivery workflow for deploying CloudFormation Templates using CloudFormation.



[AWS Git-backed Static Website](https://alestic.com/2016/10/aws-git-backed-static-website/) -

Describes CloudFormation Template to deploy a static website with continous deployment.  Supports Hugo or plain html.



[Running AWS Lambda Functions in AWS CodePipeline using CloudFormation](https://stelligent.com/2016/02/08/aws-lambda-functions-aws-codepipeline-cloudformation/) -

Describes setting up an invoke action in a CodePipeline.



[Automating AWS CodeDeploy Provisioning in CloudFormation](https://stelligent.com/2016/01/15/automating-aws-codedeploy-provisioning-in-cloudformation/) -

Deploying a CodePipeline using CodeDeploy service configured by CloudFormation.



[Optional Parameters For Pre-existing Resources in AWS CloudFormation Templates](https://alestic.com/2016/11/aws-cloudformation-optional-resources/) -

How to construct CloudFormation templates that can create new resources or use pre-existing resources.



[CloudFormation To Build A CDN With (Free) Custom SSL](https://serverlesscode.com/post/acm-certificates-in-cloudformation/) -

How to use AWS Certificate Manager with CloudFormation and CloudFront.



[Using AWS KMS to Encrypt Values in CloudFormation Stacks](https://ben.fogbutter.com/2016/02/22/using-kms-to-encrypt-cloud-formation-values.html) - using a Lambda backed custom resource to encrypt sensative values and make the encrypted form available to CloudFormation.



[How to Translate HIPAA Controls to AWS CloudFormation Templates](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/how-to-translate-hipaa-controls-to-aws-cloudformation-templates-part-3-of-the-automating-hipaa-compliance-series/) - A few security related Template examples.






## Videos



AWS re:invent 2016

- [DEV313 - Infrastructure Continuous Delivery Using AWS CloudFormation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDalsML3QqY)



AWS re:invent 2015

- [DVO304 - AWS CloudFormation Best Practices](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVMlxJJNmyA)

- [ARC307 - Infrastructure as Code](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL2xSMVXy5w)



[AWS CloudFormation: Infrastructure as Code](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39BP_vImxlU) - From AWS Public Sector Summit 2016



[Deep Dive:Infrastructure as Code](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEyklTbXfMk) - AWS Webinar






## Tools

[CFN Nag](https://github.com/stelligent/cfn_nag) - Linting tool for CloudFormation templates



[cfn-check](https://github.com/Versent/cfn-check) - CloudFormation template validation tool



[cfn-flow](A practical workflow for AWS CloudFormation) - A workflow tool for launching CloudFormation stacks implementing red/black deployment pattern.



[aws-cfn-template-flip](https://github.com/awslabs/aws-cfn-template-flip) - Tool for converting AWS CloudFormation templates between JSON and YAML formats






## DSLs and Generators



[troposphere](https://github.com/cloudtools/troposphere) - Python library to create AWS CloudFormation descriptions



[cfndsl](https://github.com/stevenjack/cfndsl) - Ruby DSL for generating AWS CloudFormation templates



[CloudFormation Template Generator](https://github.com/MonsantoCo/cloudformation-template-generator) - 

A type-safe Scala DSL for generating CloudFormation templates



[Lono](https://github.com/tongueroo/lono) - Lono generates CloudFormation templates based on erb templates



[go-cloudformation](https://github.com/crewjam/go-cloudformation) - A golang library for reading and producing 

CloudFormation templates.






## IDEs



[idea-cloudformation](https://github.com/shalupov/idea-cloudformation) - AWS CloudFormation plugin for IntelliJ-based IDEs (IntelliJ IDEA, RubyMine, WebStorm, PhpStorm, PyCharm, AppCode, Android Studio, DataGrip, CLion).



[cform](https://github.com/beaknit/cform) - SublimeText plugin for CloudFormation.






## Examples



[AWS CloudFormation Template Collection](https://github.com/awslabs/aws-cloudformation-templates) - Officially supported 

and community contributed AWS sample templates.



[User Guide Sample Templates](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/cfn-sample-templates.html) -

Sample templates from the CloudFormation User Guide.



[Stelligent CloudFormation Templates](https://github.com/stelligent/cloudformation_templates) -

Impressive collection of templates from Stelligent.



[Continuous Deployment Reference Architecture](https://github.com/awslabs/ecs-refarch-continuous-deployment) - Reference Architecture for creating a flexible and scalable deployment pipeline to Amazon ECS using AWS CodePipeline.  Demonstrates

a GitHub CodePipeline source and a PHP application with an ECS cluster and load balancer.



[Continuous Delivery Basic Walkthrough](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide//continuous-delivery-codepipeline-basic-walkthrough.html) -

CloudFormation userguide walkthrough of setting up a CodePipeline for Continuous delivery that uses a CloudFormation

stack to deploy a separate CloudFormation stack.



[aws-git-backed-static-website](https://github.com/alestic/aws-git-backed-static-website) -

CloudFormation Template configuring several AWS services to create a static website with Continuous deployment.

Uses CodeCommit, CodePipeline, Certificate Manager, Route 53, Lamda, CloudFront.  Uses CloudFormation Conditions.



[AWS API Gateway Developer Portal](https://github.com/awslabs/aws-api-gateway-developer-portal) - An example serverless application deployment with Cognito and Lambda configuration in CloudFormation.



[Serverless Image Resizing](https://github.com/awslabs/serverless-image-resizing) - An image resizing API deployed

with CloudFormation built on Lambda and API Gateway with S3.



[Startup Kit Serverless Workload](https://github.com/awslabs/startup-kit-serverless-workload) - An example serverless RESTful API, to be deployed via the AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM).



[Dromedary](https://github.com/stelligent/dromedary) -

Sample App to demonstrate a working CodePipeline featured in ARC307: Infrastructure as Code breakout session at 2015 AWS re:Invent.



[Dromedary Serverless](https://github.com/stelligent/dromedary-serverless) -

Serverless version of the Dromedary application.



[ECS CloudFormation Reference Architecture](https://github.com/awslabs/ecs-refarch-cloudformation) -

A reference architecture for deploying containerized microservices with Amazon ECS and AWS CloudFormation (YAML).



[CFN Cluster](https://github.com/awslabs/cfncluster) -

CfnCluster is a framework that deploys and maintains high performance computing clusters.






## Comparing, Evaluating, Integrating with other Tools



[Heat](https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Heat) - CloudFormation compatible Orchestration program for OpenStack.



[Why we use Terraform and not Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, or CloudFormation](https://blog.gruntwork.io/why-we-use-terraform-and-not-chef-puppet-ansible-saltstack-or-cloudformation-7989dad2865c#.8bkq5jc9z) - Overview of features of various Infrastructure as Code Tools, including CloudFormation.



[Choosing the Right Tool to Provision AWS Infrastructure](https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/choosing-right-tool-provision-aws-infrastructure) - Comparing CloudFormation and Teraform.



## License



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To the extent possible under law, Jeff Moore has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.