Step 2: Build Stack - Alex-Burgess/ansible-demo GitHub Wiki

The CloudFormation stack templates the building of the infrastructure for this demo. The infrastructure is separated into two distinct areas:

1. Base stack - Containing the VPC, Security Groups, IAM roles and profiles and Ansible Controller instances.
2. Webservers Stack - Built for each web application environment, containing the webserver instances.

Build the Base Stack and a Webservers stack for just the test environment of a demo web application.

1. Checkout the git repository:

   git clone [email protected]:Alex-Burgess/AnsibleWebDemo.git
   

2. Upload CloudFormation template to repo bucket (Note - update bucket name):

   $ cd AnsibleHelloWorld/cloudformation
   $ aws s3 sync . s3://ansible-hello-world/cloudformation/ --delete
   

3. Create base stack using default input params in the params_base.json file:

   $ aws cloudformation create-stack \
    --stack-name AnsibleDemo \
    --template-url https://s3.amazonaws.com/ansible-hello-world/cloudformation/base.template \
    --parameters file://params_base.json \
    --capabilities CAPABILITY_NAMED_IAM
   

4. Create the webserver stack for the test environment of the AnsibleDemo web application:

   $ aws cloudformation create-stack \
    --stack-name AnisbleWebServersDemo \
    --template-url https://s3.amazonaws.com/ansible-hello-world/cloudformation/webservers.template \
    --parameters file://params_demo.json \
    --capabilities CAPABILITY_NAMED_IAM
   

Next: Step 3 - Use Ansible to deploy demo web application to test environment