Posted On: Apr 17, 2023
Today, AWS announces the preview release of the AWS CloudFormation Template Sync Controller for Flux, a new open source project that automates the process of syncing changes from CloudFormation templates to CloudFormation stacks.
Flux CD is an open source, Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) graduated project that keeps Kubernetes clusters in sync with sources of configuration including Git repositories, S3 buckets, and Open Container Initiative (OCI) compatible repositories (such as Amazon Elastic Container Registry). AWS CloudFormation is a service that helps you model and set up your AWS resources so that you can spend less time managing those resources and more time focusing on your applications that run in AWS. You create a template that describes all the AWS resources that you want, and CloudFormation takes care of provisioning and configuring those resources for you.
The AWS CloudFormation Template Sync Controller for Flux is an extension to Flux that lets you store your CloudFormation templates in a Git repository and automatically deploy them as CloudFormation stacks in your AWS account. After installing the CloudFormation Template Sync controller into your Kubernetes cluster, you can configure Flux to monitor your Git repository for changes to CloudFormation template files. When a CloudFormation template file is updated in a Git commit, the CloudFormation controller is designed to automatically deploy the latest template changes to your CloudFormation stack.
To get started, visit the AWS CloudFormation Template Sync Controller project on GitHub.