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title = "Lab 1"
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## Objective

In this lab, you will learn how you can use taskcat to test your cloudformation 
templates in an AWS region.

## What will you do?

First step to use Taskcat is to create a config file where you define various details 
about your CloudFormation project such as project name, Cloudformation template you 
want to test, AWS regions where you want to test your templates, etc.

So, in this lab, you will:

- Create a config file
- Launch a test

To get started, open the IDE by clicking in the **IDE** link in the Event Engine 
dashboard. Then, in the new window, navigate to the `lab1/cfn-project` both the file 
browser of the IDE, and the terminal (`cd lab1/cfn-project`).