The document outlines an AWS CloudFormation template designed for creating both single and redundant system architectures, including components like EC2 instances, VPC, and ELB. It describes the structure and dependencies of the templates as well as their usage for deploying LAMP stacks in various configurations. Additionally, it provides detailed operation manuals for deploying the stacks using AWS CLI commands.

1. AWS CloudFormation
template with single &
redundant system
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Naoya Hashimoto

2. Table of Contents
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Overview
System Architecture - Network
System Architecture - EC2
Template Structure - Dependency & Resources
Template Structure - Function
Template Structure - RPM packages
Operation Manual - AWS CLI (1)
Operation Manual - AWS CLI (2)
Operation Manual - AWS CLI (3)

3. Overview
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Use CloudFormation to create Stacks composed of VPC, Internet Gateway, Route
Table, ELB, EC2 Instance, EBS Volumes
Single pattern with EC2 Instances WEB server and DB server with the same AZ
Redundant pattern with EC2 Instances WEB server and DB server with multi-AZ
Install LAMP package with Cloud-init
Add & resize another EBS Volumes for WEB server and DB Server
Stack – redundant pattern
Stack – single pattern
AWS CloudFormation
Amazon VPC
Elastic Load
Balancing
WEB on
Instance
Availability Zone
Internet
Gateway
DB on
Instance
WEB on
Instance
DB on
Instance
Availability Zone
Elastic Load
Balancing
DB on
Instance
WEB on
Instance
Route Table
Availability Zone
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4. System Architecture - Network
vpc.template
Name
AvailabilityZone
Role
SubnetPublicVarA00 ap-northeast-1a ELB
SubnetPublicVarC01 ap-northeast-1c ELB
SubnetPublicVarA02 ap-northeast-1a Instances in AutoScaling Group
SubnetPublicVarC03 ap-northeast-1c Instances in AutoScaling Group
SubnetPublicFixA08 ap-northeast-1a Instances in Fixed IP address
SubnetPublicFixC09 ap-northeast-1c Instances in Fixed IP address
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5. System Architecture - EC2
cloudformation-single.template
vpc.template
ec2-single.template
cloudformation-redundant.template
vpc.template
ec2-redundant.template
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6. Template Structure - Dependency & Resources
Single
Redundant
① cloudformation-redundant.template
① cloudformation-single.template
AWS::CloudFormation::Stack
AWS::CloudFormation::Stack
② vpc.template
AWS::EC2::InternetGateway
AWS::EC2::NetworkAcl
AWS::EC2::NetworkAclEntry
AWS::EC2::Route
AWS::EC2::RouteTable
③ ec2-single.template
AWS::EC2::Subnet
AWS::EC2::SubnetNetworkAclAssociation
AWS::EC2::SubnetRouteTableAssociation
AWS::EC2::VPC
AWS::EC2::VPCGatewayAttachment
AWS::CloudFormation::WaitCondition
AWS::CloudFormation::WaitConditionHandle
AWS::EC2::EIP
AWS::EC2::Instance
AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup
AWS::ElasticLoadBalancing::LoadBalancer
③ ec2-redundant.template
AWS::CloudFormation::WaitCondition
AWS::CloudFormation::WaitConditionHandle
AWS::EC2::EIP
AWS::EC2::Instance
AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup
AWS::ElasticLoadBalancing::LoadBalancer
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7. Template Structure - Function overview
Single
Redundant
cloudformation-redundant.template
cloudformation-single.template
Base template for single, redundant pattern
Add output values from nested stacks
Input key to the following items(values):
VPC CIDR, Instance Type, Volume Size, SSH KeyName, SecurityGroup CIDR(Customer’s GW, Office GW, Monitoring Server’s GW),
DB Root Password
Pass the parameters to the nested stack
Output the parameters
VPC CIDR, Subnet ID , Instance Type, Instance ID, EIP, Volume Size, SecurityGroup CIDR(Customer GW, Own Office GW,
Monitoring Server GW)
vpc.template
Common template for single, redundant pattern
Create the following resources:
VPC, Subnet, Network ACL, Internet GW, Routing Table
ec2-single.template
ec2-redundant.template
EC2 resource template for single, redundant pattern
Create the following resources:
Instance, EBS Volume, ELB, EIP, Security Groups
Install Apache, PHP, MySQL
Enable/Disable the services will be started automatically upon boot
Create a linux user, opuser for
Attach another EBS Volumes, create file system and resize them
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8. Template Structure - RPM packages
• Common
o gcc, gcc-c++, make, wget, unzip, git, ntp, openssl
o sendmail, postfix
• WEB Server
o mod_ssl, httpd, httpd-devel, httpd-tools
• DB Server
o mysql, mysql-devel, mysql-embedded-devel, mysql-libs, mysql-server
※Using MySQL Community repository(http://repo.mysql.com/mysql-communityrelease-el6.rpm) to install MySQL via yum on CentOS.
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9. Operation Manual - AWS CLI (1)
Precondition
• Login to Amazon Linux AMI to deploy stack.
• Grant IAM Role with administrator privilege on the
instance.
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10. Operation Manual - AWS CLI (2)
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Template PATH on github
https://github.com/hashnao/aws-cloudformation/tree/master/EC2
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Validate template
$ git clone https://github.com/hashnao/aws-cloudformation
$ cd aws-cloudformation-master/EC2/
$ aws cloudformation validate-template
--template-body file://$PWD/cloudformation-single.template
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Create Stack
$ aws cloudformation create-stack
--capabilities CAPABILITY_IAM
--template-body file://$PWD/cloudformation-single.template
--stack-name <Stack Name>
--parameters ParameterKey=CustomerName,ParameterValue=<Character string>
--parameters ParameterKey=DBRootPasssword,ParameterValue=<Character string>
--parameters ParameterKey=InstanceTypeDB,ParameterValue=<Instance Type>
--parameters ParameterKey=InstanceTypeWeb,ParameterValue=<Instance Type>
--parameters ParameterKey=KeyName,ParameterValue=<SSH KeyName>
--parameters ParameterKey=SecurityGroupCidrCustomer,ParameterValue=<CIDR>
--parameters ParameterKey=SecurityGroupCidrMonitor,ParameterValue=<CIDR>
--parameters ParameterKey=SecurityGroupCidrOffice,ParameterValue=<CIDR>
--parameters ParameterKey=VolumeSizeDB,ParameterValue=<Number>
--parameters ParameterKey=VolumeSizeDB,ParameterValue=<Number>
--parameters ParameterKey=VPCCIDR,ParameterValue=<1st and 2nd octet>
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Describe stack
$ aws cloudformation describe-stacks --stack-name <Stack Name>
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List stack resource
$ aws cloudformation list-stack-resources --stack-name <Stack Name>
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Describe Stack Events
$ aws cloudformation describe-stack-events --stack-name <Stack Name>
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11. Operation Manual - AWS CLI (3)
※Sample command with parameters
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Create Stack
$ aws cloudformation create-stack
--capabilities CAPABILITY_IAM
--template-body file://$PWD/cloudformation-single.template
--stack-name samplesingle
--parameters ParameterKey=CustomerName,ParameterValue=samplesingle
--parameters ParameterKey=DBRootPasssword,ParameterValue=mysql00
--parameters ParameterKey=InstanceTypeDB,ParameterValue=t1.micro
--parameters ParameterKey=InstanceTypeWeb,ParameterValue=t1.micro
--parameters ParameterKey=KeyName,ParameterValue=default
--parameters ParameterKey=SecurityGroupCidrCustomer,ParameterValue=0.0.0.0/0
--parameters ParameterKey=SecurityGroupCidrMonitor,ParameterValue=0.0.0.0/0
--parameters ParameterKey=SecurityGroupCidrOffice,ParameterValue=0.0.0.0/0
--parameters ParameterKey=VolumeSizeDB,ParameterValue=10
--parameters ParameterKey=VolumeSizeDB,ParameterValue=10
--parameters ParameterKey=VPCCIDR,ParameterValue=10.0
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