amazon-cloudformation

Create EC2 instance using CloudFormation, but the name (tags) of root volume is empty. How to set it using CloudFormation? # ec2-instance.yml (CloudFormation template) MyInstance: Type: "AWS::EC2::Instance" Properties: ImageId: "ami-da9e2cbc" InstanceType: "t2.nano" KeyName: !Ref "KeyPair" Tags: # This is for EC2 instance (not root volume) - Key: "Name" Value: "my-instance" I find "Volumes" and "BlockDeviceMappings" properties but it could not. CloudFormation does not appear to support this currently. However using an instance user data script , you can do this to tag the root volume: apt-get

I'm using AWS IAM roles that allows an instance to have access to certain resources using temporary API credentials (access key, secret key and security token). When I test the temporary credentials using this ruby script, it runs without any problems : require 'rubygems' require 'aws-sdk' AWS.config( :access_key_id => "MY ACCESS KEY GOES HERE", :secret_access_key => "MY SECRET KEY GOES HERE", :session_token => "MY TOKEN GOES HERE") s3 = AWS::S3.new() myfile = s3.buckets['My-Config'].objects["file.sh"] File.open("/tmp/file.sh", "w") do |f| f.write(myfile.read) end But when using command line

Currently I am converting CFT from JSON to Yaml. Everything works fine until Userdata section.I am having hard time to use any of functions like !Ref or !FindInMap in userdata section. UserData: Fn::Base64: !Sub | #!/bin/bash -v /command {Fn::FindInMap: [ "url", Ref: AWS::Region, Ref: EnvironmentType ] } It would be very helpful, If anyone can share any snippet of code. I've been having fun and games with this as well. Although the documentation says that Fn::FindInMap is supported in Fn::Sub , there's no example of use and I've tried all sorts of combinations of quotes and colons without

Is it possible to have nested Mappings in CloudFormation, like the following example? "Mappings" : { "Regions" : { "us-east-1" : { "Environments" : { "dev" : { "ImageId" : "something", "Subnet" : "something" }, "qa" : { "ImageId" : "something", "Subnet" : "something" } } }, "us-west-2" : { "Environments" : { "dev" : { "ImageId" : "something", "Subnet" : "something" }, "qa" : { "ImageId" : "something", "Subnet" : "something" } } } } } When I attempt to do something like this, I get the following error: Template format error: Every Mappings attribute must be a String or a List. If nested

I have a shell script(userdata file) and wondering is there a CLI command parameter that allows user to launch Cloudformation stack with userdata file? Inside your template, use a CloudFormation parameter for the instance userdata: { "Parameters": { "UserData": { "Type": "String" } }, "Resources": { "Instance": { "Type" : "AWS::EC2::Instance", "Properties" : { "UserData" : { "Ref" : "UserData" }, ... } }, ... } } Assuming you're using a Unix-like command line environment, create your stack like this: aws cloudformation create-stack --stack-name myStack \ --template-body file://myStack.json \ -

I experience quite strange issues when compiling the template, where I reference a string parameter in Fn::Sub , while the docs do explicitly say that one can use Ref function inside of Fn::Sub . Here is a piece of template: "Resources": { "LaunchConfiguration": { "Type" : "AWS::AutoScaling::LaunchConfiguration", "Properties" : { "UserData": { "Fn::Base64": { "Fn::Sub": { "Ref": "UserDataParam" } } }, And here is an error I get: Template error: One or more Fn::Sub intrinsic functions don't specify expected arguments. Specify a string as first argument, and an optional second argument to

I am trying to complete a codepipeline with the cloudformation service and this error is generated. It must be said that the separate cloudformation service works well. The complete error is: JobFailed Requires capabilities: [CAPABILITY_AUTO_EXPAND] (Service: AmazonCloudFormation; Status Code: 400; Error Code: InsufficientCapabilitiesException; Request ID: 1a977102-f829-11e8-b5c6-f7cc8454c4d0) The solutions I have is to add the CAPABILITY_AUTO_EXPAND --capabilities parameter but that only applies to CLI and my case is by web console. Ran into the same problem, I could not find a way to do it

I have am AWS Lambda function written in Java that I would like to use as part of a response to an AWS CloudFormation function. Amazon provides two detailed examples on how to create a CloudFormation custom resource that returns its value based on an AWS Lambda function written in Node.js, however I have been having difficulty translating the Lambda examples into Java. How can we setup our AWS Java function so that it reads the value of the pre-signed S3 URL passed in as a parameter to the Lambda function from CloudFormation and send back our desired response to the waiting CloudFormation