CloudFormer

External

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/cfn-using-cloudformer.html

Internal

• CloudFormation

Overview

CloudFormer is a template creation tool that creates an AWS CloudFormation template from existing AWS resources. CloudFormer is itself an "AWS application", comprising a set of AWS resources deployed as a CloudFormation stack. Among these resources, there is a new EC2 instance:

CloudFormer Deployment

CloudFormation -> Create stack -> Use a sample template -> Select the sample template from the drop-down box -> CloudFormer -> Next

Stack Name: cloudformer-for-apigateway

Username: some random username, "cloudformer" is good.

Password: some random password

After the stack is fully deployed, the underlying application can be accessed with the username and the password specified above.

VPC Selection: CreateNewVPC -> Next -> I acknowledge that AWS CloudFormation might create IAM resources -> Create Stack.

After the stack creation is complete, the URL to use to access the application is available as stack Outputs -> CustomVPCWebsiteURL

CloudFormer Removal

Remove the stack that created it. It will remove all created resources.

CloudFormer Usage

Copy and paste in a browser the URL exposed as "CustomVPCWebsiteURL" stack Output. The front page is similar to:

Create Template -> Analyzing your Account.

Template Description

Resource Name Filter or "Select all resources"

There is a wizard giving the choice to select individual resources.