Re:AWS CloudShell
by dragonwriter on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @10:38AM
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> Cloudformation is the best tool for aws infra-as-a-code.
Talk about damning with faint praise.
> It rolls back,
Sometimes.
> no leftovers on delete,
Well, on successful delete, maybe. DELETE_FAILED with partial stack deletion is a thing (and a thing CF could fairly trivially avoid in some common cases by simply querying resources for deletion protection.)
> full control of resource properties
Except the AWS resources it doesn't support, and properties of supported resources it doesn't support, because CF always lags the underlying services and their APIs.
Talk about damning with faint praise.
> It rolls back,
Sometimes.
> no leftovers on delete,
Well, on successful delete, maybe. DELETE_FAILED with partial stack deletion is a thing (and a thing CF could fairly trivially avoid in some common cases by simply querying resources for deletion protection.)
> full control of resource properties
Except the AWS resources it doesn't support, and properties of supported resources it doesn't support, because CF always lags the underlying services and their APIs.