ManagingCloudFormationStacks

Managing Cloud Formation Stacks

Simple Deploy can create, destroy, clone, update and read information about Cloud Formation stacks.

Assuming we have the following Cloud Formation template save to ~/sqs.json:

{
  "AWSTemplateFormatVersion" : "2010-09-09",

  "Description" : "SQS Queue",

  "Parameters": {
    "Description": {
      "Type": "String",
      "Description": "What is the purpose of this queue"
    }
  },

  "Resources" : {
    "Queue" : {
      "Type" : "AWS::SQS::Queue"
    }
  },

  "Outputs" : {
    "QueueURL" : {
      "Description" : "URL of newly created SQS Queue",
      "Value" : { "Ref" : "Queue" }
    }
  }
}

Assuming you have setup credentials with a default account, Simple Deploy can be used to create the following stack:

# simple_deploy create -e default -n queue -t ~/sqs.json -a Description='M
y brand new SQS queue.'
2012-12-12 15:25:31 -0800 INFO : Read Description=My brand new SQS queue.
2012-12-12 15:25:32 -0800 INFO : Creating Cloud Formation stack queue.
2012-12-12 15:25:33 -0800 INFO : Cloud Formation stack creation completed.

This will create a stack named queue passing in the parameter Description using the ~/sqs.json template in the default environment.

We can view lots of information about this stack including:

• attributes
• outputs
• parameters
• resources
• status
• instances
• template

For example, to view the outputs of this template we can run the following:

# simple_deploy outputs -e default -n queue

QueueURL: https://sqs.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/660217303193/queue-Queue-17Z22UR72TQJF