Create CF Stack
Create CloudFormation Stack
- Go to Deploy to AWS to proceed with stack creation.
Alternatively, you can also create a CloudFormation Stack with Upload yaml file
- The first step, configure the template. Select Template is ready
- Template source, select Amazon S3 URL
- In the lab, preconfigured Amazon S3 URL
- Select Next
- We configure the stack details
- Stack name, enter the stack name you want to set.
STACK_NAME will be used as the header or header of the names of the services in this lab. Example: alb-STACK_NAME-XXX
- In the Parameters section, select false for SkipBucket
- Select Next
- Proceed to Configure stack options
- Tags, enter the value key-value (you can enter it)
- Select Next
- Check configuration stack
- Select I acknowledge that AWS CloudFormation might create IAM resources
- Select Create Stack
- Stack creation takes about 7 minutes.
- Select stack to create successfully
- Select Events
- See the stack creation process
This stack initializes Cloud9 Environment, DynamoDB Table, LoadBalancerDNS, ProfileName, S3WebsiteURL, SiteBucket.
- In the newly created stack interface
- Select Outputs
- Select value as the path Cloud9 of Key Cloud9Env.
- We use AWS Cloud9 as our development environment.
We will be using this Cloud9 Environment throughout the whole lab. The AWS Cloud9 environment created by CloudFormation is named Project- STACK_NAME
- Check Outputs of the stack
- Access to S3
- Select Buckets
- Bucket has been created (http://BUCKET_NAME.s3-website.REGION.amazonaws.com/)
- The website is static and the link is saved in workshop-1/cfn-outputs.json
- Next we check DynamoDB
- Access to DynamoDB
- New Table has been initialized
- Check Load Balancers
- Access to EC2
- Select Load Balancers
- Check the result
