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Paul Duvall edited this page Apr 29, 2019 · 18 revisions

Publishing CloudFormation templates with a Launch Stack button

In this section, you learn where to upload CloudFormation templates so that you can use them publicly via a Launch Stack button or other. There is a CodePipeline that runs in Stelligent's production account that copies all files in this repo to an S3 bucket set to public-read.

  1. From your user directory, clone this repo (or get the latest via git pull) git clone https://github.com/stelligent/cloudformation_templates.git
  2. Change the directory to labs cd ~/cloudformation_templates/labs
  3. Make a new directory or use an existing directory within labs. In this example, I am using _example mkdir _example
  4. Change to the new directory cd _example
  5. Make an empty CloudFormation template touch example.yml
  6. Put the CloudFormation template configuration in this file and save
  7. After locally testing, commit the code to GitHub git add ~/cloudformation_templates/labs/_example git commit -am "new CloudFormation template used in Stelligent blog && git push
  8. Go to the blog you're editing and put the following in the HTML text (making the approriate changes based on the name of your directory/CloudFormation template name):

<a href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/home?region=us-east-1#/stacks/new?stackName=STACK-NAME&amp;templateURL=https://s3.amazonaws.com/cloudformation-templates-stelligent/labs/_example/example.yml"><img class="alignnone" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/cloudformation-examples/cloudformation-launch-stack.png" alt="" width="144" height="27"/></a><div>

The above HTML markup gets convered in this:

Launch CFN stack

Creating a cloudformation_templates panel

  1. Create a new folder in this repo or commit files to an existing folder if a similar topic. For example, if you're creating a lab, create a new folder under labs.
  2. Refer to the previously committed CloudFormation template file
  3. Upload the image you downloaded from CloudFormation Designer to S3. For example: https://s3.amazonaws.com/stelligent-public/media/cloudformation-diagrams/ecs-jenkins.jpg.
  4. Create a new section in the CloudFormation Templates README. For example, see Containerized CI Solutions in AWS: Jenkins in ECS Lab. This will include a brief description, create details, launch stack button, design thumbnail/link, video link, and command-line options.
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