vCloud Director (vCD) on AWS - CloudFormation Templates

This repository contains AWS CloudFormation Templates that deploy scaleable multi cell vCloud Director Environment leveraging AWS services. The project was created for pure testing purposes with a long term goal to be leveraged in conjunction with the VMware Cloud on AWS service offering and provide fully automated mechanism to provision public cloud vCD instances on AWS. This vCD Stack is deployed in a Multi-AZ fashion by placing the stack components across Two Availability Zones in a Single AWS Region.

The vCD Stack infrastructure is laid out leveraging Nested CloudFormation templates, which allows us to break the deployment of the necessary infrastructure into a smaller chunks. Leveraging Nested CloudFormation templates allows us also to have smaller templates with less repeatable code in them.

Prerequisites

Before you are able to successfully deploy this templates, there are a few prerequisites that needs to be performed before you can deploy this stack:

• EC2 Key Pairs - You need to create two sets of EC2 key pars (highly recommended). One to be assigned for the Bastion host/s and another for the vCD Cells EC2 Instances.
• ELB Certificate - The Application ELB for the vCD UI requires a certificate to be upload to ACM before you try to deploy this stack. You need to provide the ARN for this certificate when deploying this stack.
• vCD Binaries - This stack requires the vCD binaries to be uploaded on a S3 bucket. You need to provide the name of the S3 bucket and the binary name when deploying this stack.
• vCD License Key - This stack requires vCD license key to be provided in order for the stack to successfully deploy.

Templates

The nested templates are broken down into different categories:

• Orchestrator
• Infrastructure
• Bastion Hosts
• Database
• vCD deployment
• Load Balancing
• vCD Autoscaling Groups

Orchestrator

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This is master templates that calls all nested templates.

main.template
Creates the Complete vCD Stack The template deploy the following nested templates VPC Bastion Host/s Postgres RDS vCD Deployment Elastic Load Balancers AutoScaling Groups Public S3 URL https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vcd-cf-templates/main.template	Launch View in Designer

Infrastructure

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vpc.template
Creates the VPC with single or multi-az network topology This template deploys VPC Public Network/s Private Network/s Nat Gateways/s EIP/s Routing tables S3 endpoint Public S3 URL https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vcd-cf-templates/vpc.template	Launch View in Designer

Bastion Hosts

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linux-bastion.template
This template is based of the Linux Bastion Hosts on AWS - Quick starts template. This template deploys Security Groups EIP/s Bastion host/s in Auto Scaling Group Bastion host/s Access Security Group Private instances Access Security Group Public S3 URL https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vcd-cf-templates/linux-bastion.template	Launch View in Designer

Database

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rds.template
Deploys the Postgres RDS in single or multi-az deployment This template deploys RDS Security Group Postgres RDS Public S3 URL https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vcd-cf-templates/rds.template	Launch View in Designer

vCD deployment

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vcd-main.template
Deploys the Primary vCD cell This template deploys EC2 Instance vCD Cells Access Security Group S3 Bucket for vCD Transfer Store Configures first vCD Cell Public S3 URL https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vcd-cf-templates/vcd-main.template	Launch View in Designer

Load Balancing

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vcd-elb.template
Deploys Elastic Load Balancers for vCD This template deploys vCD UI Elastic Load Balancer vCD Console Proxy Elastic Load Balancer Public S3 URL https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vcd-cf-templates/vcd-elb.template	Launch View in Designer

vCD Autoscaling Groups

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vcd-cells.template
Deploys Autoscaling Groups for vCD Cells This template deploys vCD UI Autoscaling Group Adds vCD UI Autoscaling Group to ELB UI Target Group vCD Console Proxy Autoscaling Group Adds vCD Console Proxy Autoscaling Group to ELB UI Target Group Public S3 URL https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/vcd-cf-templates/vcd-cells.template	Launch View in Designer

TO-DO List