Questions tagged [amazon-cloudformation]
Amazon Web Services CloudFormation is a JSON- or YAML-based templating system that can be used to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and updating them in an orderly and predictable fashion. You can think of it as 'Infrastructure-as-code'.
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Discover private DNS of load balancers in Cloudformation
This is a pretty common issue but I am having trouble finding a proper answer to how to go about this.
I have two apps, which will run on EC2s. These apps will be in their separate autoscaling groups,...
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Can't delete User Pool Domain when Cognito User Pool already deleted
I deployed a CloudFormation template that sets up a Cognito User Pool and an associated User Pool Domain. As there was a misconfiguration in the template a rollback was triggered. The rollback ...
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Failed to connect instance with ALB
I'm trying to build a system like this one:
I can't connect to the Instance in private public through ALB. I checked my cloudformation code several times and still couldn't find problem. Please help ...
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Can't connect to the instance in private subnet through a ALB
I would like to build a simple AWS structure just like the picture. But I failed to connect the instance by using tera term. I checked everything but cannot find anything wrong, can someone please ...
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Adding an existing security group CloudFormation EC2 template
Instead of having to set ingress and egress rules, how do I reference existing EC2 security groups in a CloudFormation Template?
Resources:
EC2Instance:
Type: AWS::EC2::Instance
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AWS easy way to provision a new database on an existing RDS (MariaDB) instance
I have a greenfields account, with a bunch of stacks I've built a-top of it. Now, I have no existing EC2 instances, however while "in this state" I want to connect to my existing RDS MariaDB instance ...
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How to include sticky session in AWS Elastic Beanstalk using Cloud Formation template
As I searched for the stickiness in Elastic Beanstalk I didn't find the way how to include it using AWS Cloud Formation. Can anyone help me to do that thing.
Thanks in advance.
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Cloudformation for Kinesis Firehose delivery into Redshift
I am building a Kinesis Firehose Delivery Stream that will stream into Redshift.
This process has an S3 bucket as an intermediary.
The Cloudformation docs for AWS::KinesisFirehose::DeliveryStream ...
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AWS cloud formation what should be excluded
We currently have a web UI configured infrastructure that I want to move to cloud formation as it is growing in complexity. We use ECS with multiple docker containers, RDS, load balancers, SNS etc.
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Update the software in a EC2 instance with CloudFormation update process
I wonder if there's any way to update the software inside the instance. I mean, I've a software running in EC2, I deploy the software with a CF template. That template has a parameter with the ...
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AWS CloudFormation Template for Jupyter
When reading the instructions for setting up a CloudFormation Template in Creating and Using a Jupyter Instance on AWS, I find the following modification difficult.
"AWSRegionArch2AMI" : {
"ap-...
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How can I bulk update CloudFormation stacks while keeping the parameters unchanged?
Let's say I have a number of CloudFormation stacks created from the same template. After making changes to the template, I want all stacks to be updated to the new version of the template.
I have ...
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How to expose multiple ports on one container in AWS behind ALB
The whole application consists of two servers (RabbitMQ and Tomcat) and a DB running behind ALB. For the time being there will be only one RabbitMQ instance and one Tomcat instance however the set up ...
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AWS CloudFormation: Internal Failure. Rollback requested by user
I am creating a stack via the AWS Ruby SDK v3 and it is failing with an internal error. After a long period of time (30-40 minutes) it fails and rolls back with an internal failure. No resources show ...
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How do I add storage with cloud templating?
I have a CloudFormation template to spin up an EC2 instance.
Parameters:
InstanceType:
Type: String
Description: Instance type for RStudio. Default is t2.micro.
AllowedValues:
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How to fix / why are Conditions causing Unresolved resource dependencies
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Original details below.
In the process of chasing this down, I've now narrowed it down to the fact that this security group
DatabaseSecurityGroup:
Type: AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup
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How to get instance id for docker host in cloudformation template
I have a simple CloudFormation stack which gets created with a template. A server which hosts one Docker container.
This is part of the template that creates the host and the container:
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How to upload a file into S3 bucket using CloudFormation script?
How do I upload a file into my AWS S3 bucket CloudFormation template?
AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Resources:
S3Bucket:
Type: AWS::S3::Bucket
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Not able to deploy Openshift on AWS using QuickStart Guide
Thanks for your support.
I am trying to deploy the Open-shift on aws using AWS Quickstart guide, as mentioned here.
My deployment is gets Rollback as it is unable to deploy below resources:
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How to dynamically add users clause in CloudFormation::Init (or, how to programmatically set template keys)
The AWS::CloudFormation::Init documentation allows the specification of users to be created on ec2 instances, thusly:
"users" : {
"myUser" : {
"groups" : ["groupOne", "groupTwo"],
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Can I use existing AWS IAM role to create S3 bucket via Cloudformation template?
I want to create a S3 Bucket via CloudFormation template. I found there is a way to do it for EC2 instance on this link.
Do we have a way to create S3 bucket using existing IAM role via ...
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How to launch a server in an ASG behind a LB and deploy code on it via cloudformation?
I am trying to create a quite simple infrastructure for DEV environments. Given restrictions are:
One ec2 instance only, based on standard ec2 linux
nginx server in Docker container serves ...
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AWS Fargate task fails ELB health checks
How can I troubleshoot it further? I am trying to run a simple nginx container but the load balancer complains that health checks are failed and the task does not respond on its ip number, likely ...
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How to assign a private IP dynamically generated with AWS Cloudformation?
I have an AWS Cloudformation, and I want two EC2 instances A and B on a private subnet under the same VPC.
In the application, I need A to access B.
How can I configure A with the dynamically ...
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Cloudformation intrinsic function Fn::Sub mapping
I don't understand why Fn::Sub in this template is not working.
I get the following error:
Template contains errors.: Template error: One or more Fn::Sub intrinsic functions don't specify expected ...
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What is an AWS CodeStar SyncResource?
I used CodeStar to create a DataPipeline that:
Downloads code from my github repo
Tests it in CodeBuild,
Creates/executes a CloudFormation changeset on a CloudFormation stack that CodeStar created
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Assign Public IP address to an instance through cloud-formation
This cloud formation template works as per my expectations. But when I enable Private IP address parameter, I get an error.
{
"Resources":{
"MySpotFleet":{
"Type":"AWS::EC2::...
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Spawn new Aws::AutoScalingGroup instances before old are destroyed. (503 error occuring)
TL;DR: See edit at bottom.
I am attempting set up continuous deployments for our new environment we are migrating to at my company.
I am using an aws cloudformation stack to contain all of my ...
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Single container jobs on AWS
We would like to launch single Docker container tasks in a versioned and logged - but ad-hoc fashion on AWS. Each container task requires significant vCPU and RAM (maybe 16 vCPU and 64GB RAM).
I can ...
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Can't SSH into AWS CloudFormation Stack Instance
I have a scalable load balancer set up right now that was mostly followed from this template:
https://github.com/satterly/AWSCloudFormation-samples/blob/master/LAMP_Multi_AZ.template
After adjusting ...
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How can one configure an AWS ElasticSearch access policy using CloudFormation?
The AWS documentation on ElasticSearch access control talks about how to grant access to the ES domains subresources while preventing changes to the domain's configuration by creating an ES domain ...
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Unable to create rds instance using cloud formation?
Iam trying to create an rds mysql instance using cloud formation.But when iam creating the stack iam getting rollback.Under events the error for creating rds instance is "Encountered unsupported ...
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how to get public IP of instance using cloud formation
I want to output public IP of my instance in cloud formation. This is the relevant part of my yaml file.
What attribute do I have to specify to get public IP. (Here myec2 is where I described my ...
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Is it worth bothering writing Cloudformation if Terraform exists? [closed]
Sometimes CloudFormation can be too "complicated".
Which cases should CloudFormation win over Terraform?
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Is it possible to populate an S3 bucket through a CloudFormation template?
I need to store some files for my CF template (GraphQL schema, Lambda source, etc) into an S3 bucket that will also (hopefully) be defined in the same template, as that seems to be the only way ...
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Scheduling EC2 Instances in AWS
I have an EC2 instance that I use rarely, so it spends a lot of time in a stopped state. Because it's using an elastic IP, I want to schedule a very brief start and stop command once an hour, to avoid ...
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How to change RDS KMS Key without losing data?
We have a PostgreSQL database hosted on AWS RDS. When it was created using cloudformation I set it to be encrypted, but didn't set the encryption key. As such it was set up to use the default ...
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Can't modify existing auto-scaling-group in cloud formation
I have created a new template in Cloud Formation and I'm willing in my cloud formation template to add a new target group to an existing auto scaling group that was created manually.
What are my ...
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How to increase limit of concurrent EC2 instances running in a region?
I am trying to add three t2.small instances to single region, in this case us-east-2, but couldn't do so.
I could edit this question to tell you the precise error message if requested.
How do I ...
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CloudFormation: How to export bash variable in the userdata so the vars would be available when the instance starts?
I wrote the following CloudFormation template:
{
"AWSTemplateFormatVersion" : "2010-09-09",
"Description" : "company - LaunchConfiguration and AutoScalingGroup Template",
"Parameters" : {
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Cloudformation Trouble with Parsing
I am having some issues w/ using CloudFormation and CloudFront. I have been using the AWS resources to form my template, found here
"OpenVPNCloudFront" : {
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AWS Stack Updates and ENIs
When I try to update a stack with a new image for one of the instances, I get an error saying: "Interface: yyy in use". It sounds like because I'm using ENIs in my stack template, the instance that ...
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How to mount to an existing EFS using Cloudformation?
Currently, I have a json that will create a EFS in an auto scaling group. However, how can I make it so it mounts an existing EFS that is previously created (so i can pre-load data)
this is the ...
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AWS::CloudFormation::Init not executing commands
I'm trying to get ansible installed on an instance. I figured I could use AWS::CloudFormation::Init to execute sudo pip install ansible. That doesn't seem to be working, though. This is my instance ...
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Unable to ssh to AWS instance after Cloudformation deployment
I'm trying to build out a small infrastructure:
A single VPC
A single subnet
A single security group with a single rule: ssh
A single instance
So far, in order to make it remotely functional I've ...
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Why does creating a service in AWS ECS require the ecs:CreateService permission on all resources?
I'm trying to create a service on AWS ECS, using CloudFormation. The user trying to create service has a role granting it the ecs:CreateService permission on the cluster that will host the service. ...
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AWS Cloudformation Parameters - How to make Subnet options available based on VPC
I'm creating an EMR Cluster cloudformation template which will be used to create EMRs in different regions.
Since it's for multiple regions, I'm passing the vpc and subnet options as parameters so ...
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Condition for Cloudformation Resource
So the thing is:
I have this resource creation set for AWS Cloudformation using ElasticBeanstalk, which creates additional internal_loadbalancer:
Resources:
IntLB:
Type: AWS::...
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Can we register domain in AWS route 53 via cloudformation?
I am new Cloudformation and I am trying to find a Cloudformation script to register the domain, say example.com under Route53. I looked at cloudformation pdf and found nothing related to domain ...
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How to specify a Dockerun file for a Docker backed Beanstalk deployment in Cloudformation template
I want to create a Cloudformation template for launching an Elastic Beanstalk application based on the Docker platform. I managed to make manually the setup, which includes uploading the Dockerrun.aws....
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