New Amazon Web Service CloudFormation Template Editors for Visual Studio and Eclipse : Stakes and Opportunities
Definition
For those who
unfamiliar, AWS CloudFormation gives you the possibility to
launch an entire stack of Amazon Web Service resources using a declarative
template. JSON-formatted text files define
all of the necessary resources, their attributes, and the relationships between
them.
The GOAL
in fact since December 201, 2012 we assisted to the release of a new CloudFormation editor. The goal here is create easily the templates using Visual Studio or Eclipse. Therefore you can: Browse the list of available AWS resources to insert into your template; Insert definition blocks for AWS resources that let you fill in the blanks for config; Create and update your CloudFormation stacks straight from your template in Visual Studio or Eclipse.
The CloudFormation template
editor
Amazon mentioned that: ‘’The CloudFormation template editor understands the
template format and provides intelligent assistance as you're editing.
You can use code completion with inline descriptions to quickly find and
insert definition blocks for different AWS resources. Then you simply
configure your specific details into the placeholders. The editor will also
validate your template as you make changes to identify any problems in the
file. Once you define your templates, you can use them to create and
update your stack of AWS resources right from within Visual Studio and Eclipse.
‘’
The editor is available as part of the AWS Toolkit for
Visual Studio and the AWS
Toolkit for Eclipse.
