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AWS CloudFormation is a service that gives developers and businesses an easy way to create a collection of related AWS and third-party resources, and provision and manage them in an orderly and predictable fashion.
WP CloudStack is a CloudFormation template that spins up a fully configured WordPress infrastructure in minutes. WP CloudStack integrates WordPress with AWS services like Aurora, S3, CloudFront, and CloudWatch, so you can take full advantage of the cloud, regardless of your comfort level with Linux or AWS. It also uses FastCGI Cache and other optimizations to help you get the most out of your server.
Our AWS CloudFormation template creates an Amazon Redshift stack. Redshift is a data warehousing solution that allows you to run complex data queries on huge data sets within seconds (it’s pretty awesome). You can use it to generate reports and analyze customer data. This template will launch Redshift into your VPC subnet with S3 as the data source.
Our template example is that of SFTP Gateway, a product that makes it easy to transfer files via SFTP to Amazon S3. We’ll incorporate S3, EC2, IAM, Security Groups, and more to facilitate this file transfer. Here’s how you can use CloudFormation to have EC2, IAM, and S3 work together.
CloudFormation is a powerful Infrastructure as Code tool that can help automate and manage your AWS deployments. Here’s an in-depth walkthrough of how CloudFormation works and an analysis of a template that creates a VPC.
AWS CloudFormation, an Infrastructure as Code service, includes a template made up of nine sections. Although made up of nine sections, the Resources section is the only one required. For this project we will be using Mappings, Resources, and Outputs.
The Cloud Formation template we created in part one provide a simple, reusable way to create a simple VPC. However, this template is not as flexible as it can be. We would like to have a template that can build a VPC with a varying number of subnets to handle development vs test vs production usage. We would like something that could create public-only subnets if we needed to quickly create something for demo / POC purposes. nstead of creating separate templates for these cases, we can make our existing template more flexible by using Parameters, Conditions, Mappings, and Outputs.
This is the first part of series Building a VPC with CloudFormation. This article describes how you can use AWS CloudFormation to create and manage a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), complete with subnets, NATting, route tables, etc. The emphasis is use of CloudFormation and Infrastructure as Code to build and manage resources in AWS, less about the issues of VPC design.
In the “Hands-on AWS CloudFormation” series we continue to create small templates by provisioning different types of AWS resources with AWS CloudFormation. For today’s lesson we will cover the IAM part of AWS using CloudFormation
Based on the knowledge from all previous parts of Hands-on AWS CloudFormation series let’s create something simple, essential and cool. This tutorial walks through how to create a fully functional custom VPC from scratch with a pair of public and private subnets spread across two AZs using AWS CloudFormation.
In the previous post, we discussed Pseudo parameters and Intrinsic functions such as Ref, GetAtt, GetAZs, FindInMap, Select, Join, and Split. There is one more subset of intrinsic functions left. Let’s quickly walk through Condition functions and then create a template and a stack using most of the intrinsic functions we’ve already learned.
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