Validating Templates
Get ready to learn how to validate the template files which configure your application!
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YAML makes it easy to read CloudFormation template files but is very fiddly and error-prone. Small spacing issues can cause problems and that might not be immediately obvious when you read a template. CloudFormation will try deploying resources even when the template is not fully valid and then fail when it starts processing an invalid resource, so feedback on errors might take a long time with complex templates. One of the projects I work on includes custom DNS setup for a content delivery ...