CloudFormation Examples

These are some very basic raw CloudFormation template examples. This examples are part of blog tutorials.

1. A Simple Introduction to AWS CloudFormation Part 1: EC2 Instance
2. A Simple Introduction ot AWS CloudFormation Part 2: EC2 Instance and Route53
3. A Simple Introduction to AWS CloudFormation Part 3: Updating a Stack
4. A Simple Introduction to AWS CloudFormation Part 4: Change Sets = Dry Run Mode

Commands from Tutorials

Tutorial 1

aws cloudformation create-stack --template-body file://templates/single-instance.yml --stack-name single-instance --parameters ParameterKey=KeyName,ParameterValue=tutorial ParameterKey=InstanceType,ParameterValue=t2.micro

Tutorial 2

aws cloudformation create-stack --template-body file://templates/single-instance.yml --stack-name --stack-name route53-$(date +%s) --parameters ParameterKey=KeyName,ParameterValue=tutorial ParameterKey=InstanceType,ParameterValue=t2.micro ParameterKey=HostedZoneName,ParameterValue=sub.tongueroo.com. ParameterKey=Subdomain,ParameterValue=testsubdomain

aws cloudformation create-stack --template-body file://templates/instance-and-route53.yml --stack-name route53-$(date +%s) --parameters file://parameters/instance-and-route53.json

Tutorial 3

aws cloudformation create-stack --stack-name example --template-body file://templates/single-instance.yml --parameters file://parameters/single-instance.json

aws cloudformation update-stack --stack-name example --template-body file://templates/instance-and-route53.yml --parameters file://parameters/instance-and-route53.json

aws cloudformation update-stack --stack-name example --template-body file://templates/single-instance.yml --parameters file://parameters/single-instance.json

Tutorial 4

aws cloudformation create-stack --stack-name example --template-body file://templates/single-instance.yml --parameters file://parameters/single-instance.json

aws cloudformation create-change-set --stack-name example --template-body file://templates/instance-and-route53.yml --parameters file://parameters/instance-and-route53.json --change-set-name changeset-1

aws cloudformation describe-change-set --stack-name example --change-set-name changeset-1 | jq '.Changes[]'

aws cloudformation execute-change-set --stack-name example --change-set-name changeset-1