Create CloudFormation Stack
Hello Everyone
Welcome to CloudAffaire and this is Debjeet.
In the last blog post, we have discussed CloudFormation and its components.
https://cloudaffaire.com/cloudformation-introduction/
In this blog post, we are going to create our 1st CloudFormation Stack in AWS console (new redesigned CloudFormation console) using sample LAMP with local MySQL database template.
Create CloudFormation Stack:
Step 1: Login to AWS console and navigate to ‘CloudFormation’.
Step 2: Click ‘Create Stack’.
Step 3: Select ‘Use a sample template’.
Provide LAMP Stack as ‘Sample templates’ and click ‘Next’.
Note: To reduce the cost, select the LAMP Stack with a local MySQL database and not the highly available one.
Step 4: Provide name, parameters for your LAMP stack and click ‘Next’.
Note: Select t2.micro as ‘InstanceType’ and select your keypair in ‘KeyName’.
Step 5: Leave ‘Configure stack options’ as it is and click ‘Next’.
Step 6: Review your stack configuration and click ‘Create stack’.
Note: It will take some time to complete the stack creation. You can monitor the progress in the ‘Events’ section.
Our LAMP stack successfully created.
Events: Stack creation details with timeline (used for troubleshooting if stack creation failed)
Resource: AWS resources created under this stack (in our case one EC2 instance, one Security Group)
Outputs: Values that are returned (In our case website url)
Parameters: Values passed to your template at runtime (In our case database and instance configuration details)
Template: The actual code for this stack in JSON format.
You can get the YAML code using below GitHub link.
https://github.com/CloudAffaire/CloudFormation
Step 7: Cleanup.
Note: This will also delete the underlying resources for this stack.
You can get other useful CloudFormation template using below link
Note: Do not create any stack using online sample template without proper understanding, it may have a significant cost associated with it.
Hope you have enjoyed this article. In the next blog post, we will create a CloudFormation template of our own using YAML.
To get more details on CloudFormation, please refer below AWS documentation
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/index.html
