General Information

Deploying Cloudformation Templates via AWS CLI.

Checklist

• AWS CLI configured
• Cloudformation templates created

CFTs can be deployed via aws-cli, depending upon environment.

Examples

• Deploying a s3 bucket

  aws cloudformation create-stack --stack-name s3-mynewbucket --template-body file://s3-mynewbucket.json --parameters ParameterKey="ProjectTag",ParameterValue="MyProject" ParameterKey="EnvironmentName",ParameterValue="dev"

• Deploying a security group, passing in parameters to the CFT

  aws cloudformation create-stack --stack-name mysgtest --template-body file://sg_ssh.json --parameters ParameterKey="ProjectTag",ParameterValue="MyProject" ParameterKey="EnvironmentName",ParameterValue="dev"

• Deploying an IAM managed role (note the required capabilities argument)

  aws cloudformation create-stack --stack-name iam-jenkins --template-body file://iam_role_jenkins.json --capabilities CAPABILITY_IAM CAPABILITY_NAMED_IAM