AWS CloudFormation Modules - A New Way to Reuse Templates?

Copying and pasting code or configuration comes with a lot of challenges. Fixing a bug requires you to find all the copies to fix them as well. Adding new features to all the copies becomes difficult if copies diverge. That's why many programming languages allow us to define functions and classes. In CloudFormation, you want to reuse templates as well. Think about a VPC template, database template, load-balanced Fargate container, and so on. In this video, you learn about CloudFormation Modules. A new feature to reuse CloudFormation templates.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:04 - What to expect
02:00 - How does a AWS Cloudformation template look like?
08:44 - CloudFormation Modules
11:04 - Demo: VPC & Subnet Module
22:09 - The Bad Parts
26:22 - Summary
26:40 - Wrap Up
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[@andyingham3620]

Hi Michael. Many thanks for the excellent video. Given that this was almost 2 years ago now, have AWS addressed some of the issues that you raised and have you now found yourself using CFN Modules in a production context?

[@cloudonaut]

I'm not aware of much progress in this area. But I'm not actively using CFN Modules. We switched a lot of projects to Terraform (which has much better support for Modules).

[@andyingham3620]

@@cloudonaut Many thanks for getting back on this. We're also trying to move to terraform where possible.