Preparation

Prepare resources with AWS CloudFormation

To conduct the infrastructure deployment, we will use the AWS CloudFormation service through the AWS Console or AWS CLI.

Content

CloudFormation Stack

The exercise will be set at us-east-1 (North Virginia).

  1. Sign in to AWS Console, access the CloudFormation service
  2. Proceed to create a new Stack by clicking the Create Stack button.
  3. On the Specify template page, we have 2 ways:
    1. Enter the path of Template URL in the Amazon S3 URL box.
    2. Upload an existing Template using the Upload a template file button.
  4. On the Parameters page, we will enter some required information.

cloudformation-create-stack-parameters

  1. On the Specify Stack Details page, select the Next button.
  2. On the Configure stack options page, select the Next button.
  3. On the Capabilities page, proceed to accept (Acknowledge) to allow the Template to create IAM roles, and finally select the Create Stack button.

cloudformation-stack-status

The above process will take 5-10 minutes until we see the status of the Stack as CREATE_COMPLETE.

Template URL

Ingredients Value (Required)
Stack Name smdemo
Template URL RDSFargate.yml

Or download the template below:

  • RDSFargate.yml (48 ko)

    • Parameters

    The values ​​below have been defined as default values ​​at Template.

    Ingredients Value (Required)
    NamePrefix smdemo
    ProjectTag smproj
    DBName smdemo
    DBPort 3306
    AmazonLinux2AmiId /aws/service/ami-amazon-linux-latest/amzn2-ami-hvm-x86_64-gp2

    Stack Outputs

    After the CloudFormation Stack has been prepared, we proceed to note all the values ​​in the Outputs section.

    The following Output Keys will be used:

    Output Key Definition
    BastionIP IP Address of Bastion Host
    DBInstance ID of RDS Instance
    DBUser Master User of RDS database
    DBPassword Master User’s Password of RDS database
    EC2UserPassword Password of ec2-user
    ECRRepository ECR repository
    ECSCluster ECS cluster

    cloudformation-stack-output

    We need to note and note the above values ​​because they will be used for the next sections.