Lab 3

Testing in multiple regions

An important part of building high-confidence CloudFormation is multi-region testing.

In this lab, we will see how taskcat can help uncover common issues when deploying in different regions.

We’ll start off by using the same template which builds a Lambda backed custom resource.

To test this template we will add 2 more regions to the test definition.

• After running the test, we will see that the us-east-1 region deploys properly, while we receive failures in other regions.

Looking at the logs we can see that lambda source is not accessible from the other regions.

• We will then modify the our template to include a child stack. This child stack will pre-stage the Lambda source in each region.

• Finally, we’ll kick off our taskcat test again to validate the fix we implemented!

To get started navigate to the lab3/cfn-project folder in your IDE.