CloudFormation Helpers

Some scripts to help you manage AWS CloudFormation stacks

asg-attic.py

A cost-saving script for full-stack deployments. This script mothballs all AutoScaling groups in old stacks by setting the min/max/desired to 0. This is so you can keep old stacks around for "a while" in case a roll-back is required.

$ ./asg-attic.py -h
usage: asg-attic.py [-h] [-l] [-m MOTHBALL] [-r REOPEN REOPEN]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -l, --list            list stacks, autoscaling groups and values
  -m MOTHBALL, --mothball MOTHBALL
                        reduce the instances for all autoscaling group(s) in a
                        stack to zero
  -r REOPEN REOPEN, --reopen REOPEN REOPEN
                        increase the instances for all autoscaling group(s) in
                        a stack to min:max:desired

To use it, you'll need to configure your boto credentials.

mkcfnuserdata.py

This script will help JSON format a script so that it can be embedded as in the UserData property for a AWS::EC2::Instance or AWS::AutoScaling::LaunchConfiguration resources. It does the following things:

• removes blank lines
• removes comment lines that start with '#' but keeps the shebang line
• does ghetto templating with the CFNREF_ prefix: turn CFNREF_CustomParameter into ", { "Ref": "CustomParameter" }, "

Once you do this, you can copy/paste the results into your template.

ToDo:

• better templating for Ref and possibly Fn::GetAtt
• don't copy/paste results into a template, take a template as an argument and use templating
• include more cloud-init features, formats

License

Copyright 2013 Corsis http://www.corsis.com/

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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