This is great. I am just starting to learn Cloudformation and will be quite helpful for me.
Also, what's your opinion on using boto instead of cloudformation? If you use boto with ansible, all your infrastructure code is in python and in a single code base.
boto is great and I am a big fan of it. I think the combination of troposphere and boto is very powerful. Using boto along can certainly get the job done, but:
- it will take longer to come up as calls will happen in serial (CloudFormation does parallel execution)
- you will have to do your own dependency management (not hard, just get the order right)
- you will have to do your own teardown when you are finished with the resources (this is why I would use both)
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This is great. I am just starting to learn Cloudformation and will be quite helpful for me.
Also, what's your opinion on using boto instead of cloudformation? If you use boto with ansible, all your infrastructure code is in python and in a single code base.
boto is great and I am a big fan of it. I think the combination of troposphere and boto is very powerful. Using boto along can certainly get the job done, but: - it will take longer to come up as calls will happen in serial (CloudFormation does parallel execution) - you will have to do your own dependency management (not hard, just get the order right) - you will have to do your own teardown when you are finished with the resources (this is why I would use both)
Hope that helps.
Thank you.