taskcat is a tool to test AWS CloudFormation templates. It deploys your AWS CloudFormation templates in multiple AWS Regions and generates a report with a pass/fail grade for each region. You can specify the regions and number of Availability Zones you want to include in the test, and pass in parameter values for your AWS CloudFormation template. taskcat is implemented as a cli and a Python class that you can use in your own applications.
taskcat was developed by the AWS Quick Start team to test AWS CloudFormation templates in multiple regions that automatically deploy workloads on AWS. We’re pleased to make the tool available to all developers who want to validate their custom AWS CloudFormation templates across AWS Regions.
We will cover following concepts and features of taskcat in this workshop:
#TODO - instead of listing features, we should explain what each feature is about.