Base application cloudformation script

This is a POC of a Cloudformation that deploys a sample Java app. The only thing to take into account is that Java app needs to be called with a special header.

Assumptions:

I used a substacks approach to make it more clear the code maintenance
VPC with ELB on public subnetworks and Instances on private ones
Apache server on the intances that provide the necessary header (The other option IMHO is using cloudfront)

Things I haven't done

HTTPS support. I could create it using cloudformation, but it is necessary to validate the Certificate with a proper Domain Validation, and I haven't anyone.

Deployment:

I prepared a deploy.sh script to create the stack and update when it is necessary. It uses a bucket "mpalop-test" that has to be defined properly. check the code.

cloudformation ./deploy.sh
usage: deploy.sh IAM_Profile Action:create|update

An example of the execution:

cloudformation ./deploy.sh manel-test create
### Validating -> computing.yaml
{
    "CapabilitiesReason": "The following resource(s) require capabilities: [AWS::IAM::InstanceProfile, AWS::IAM::Role]",
    "Description": "Computing (SNS, LaunchConfiguration, AutoscalingGroup, ScalePolicies)[test]",
    "Parameters": [
        {
            "NoEcho": false,
            "ParameterKey": "KeyName"
        },
        {
            "NoEcho": false,
            "ParameterKey": "TargetGroupArn"
        },
        {
            "NoEcho": false,
            "ParameterKey": "MinSize"
        },
        {
            "NoEcho": false,
            "ParameterKey": "LoadBalancerSgId"
        },
        {
            "NoEcho": false,
            "ParameterKey": "VpcId"
        },
        {
            "NoEcho": false,
            "ParameterKey": "LoadBalancerArn"
        },
        {
            "NoEcho": false,
            "ParameterKey": "Subnetworks"
        },
        {
            "NoEcho": false,
            "ParameterKey": "ImageId"
        },
        {
            "NoEcho": false,
            "ParameterKey": "ServiceNamePrefix"
        },
        {
            "NoEcho": false,
            "ParameterKey": "InstanceType"
        },
        {
            "NoEcho": false,
            "ParameterKey": "MaxSize"
        }
    ],
    "Capabilities": [
        "CAPABILITY_NAMED_IAM"
    ]
}

### Validating -> elb.yaml
{
    "Description": "ELB (Public and Private Subnets, IGW, NatGW, Route Tables)[Assignment]",
    "Parameters": [
        {
            "NoEcho": false,
            "ParameterKey": "VpcId"
        },
        {
            "NoEcho": false,
            "ParameterKey": "Subnetworks"
        },
        {
            "NoEcho": false,
            "ParameterKey": "ServiceNamePrefix"
        }
    ]
}

### Validating -> stack.yaml
{
    "CapabilitiesReason": "The following resource(s) require capabilities: [AWS::CloudFormation::Stack]",
    "Description": "Main File",
    "Parameters": [],
    "Capabilities": [
        "CAPABILITY_NAMED_IAM"
    ]
}

### Validating -> vpc.yaml
{
    "Description": "VPC (Public and Private Subnets, IGW, NatGW, Route Tables)[Assignment]",
    "Parameters": [
        {
            "NoEcho": false,
            "ParameterKey": "ServiceNamePrefix"
        }
    ]
}


Successfully packaged artifacts and wrote output template to file tmp/stack.package.yaml.
Execute the following command to deploy the packaged template
aws cloudformation deploy --template-file /Users/manel/work/test/cloudformation/tmp/stack.package.yaml --stack-name <YOUR STACK NAME>
{
    "CapabilitiesReason": "The following resource(s) require capabilities: [AWS::CloudFormation::Stack]",
    "Description": "Main File",
    "Parameters": [],
    "Capabilities": [
        "CAPABILITY_NAMED_IAM"
    ]
}
{
    "StackId": "arn:aws:cloudformation:eu-west-1:885917040675:stack/test/89236910-e60e-11e8-a101-50fae9b818d2"
}

mpalop/poc_base_app

Base application cloudformation script

Assumptions:

Things I haven't done

Deployment: