stacker

Easily assemble CloudFormation stacks with interdependencies.

Usage

$ stacker -h
Commands:
  stacker diff [STACK_NAME]    # Show outstanding stack differences
  stacker dump [STACK_NAME]    # Download stack template
  stacker fmt [STACK_NAME]     # Re-format template JSON
  stacker help [COMMAND]       # Describe available commands or one specific command
  stacker init [PATH]          # Create stacker project directories
  stacker list                 # List stacks
  stacker show STACK_NAME      # Show details of a stack
  stacker status [STACK_NAME]  # Show stack status
  stacker update [STACK_NAME]  # Create or update stack

Options:
  [--path=project path]        # Default: STACKER_PATH or './'
  [--region=AWS region name]   # Default: STACKER_REGION or 'us-east-1'

Examples

Project Structure

acme-cloudformation
|-- regions
|    |-- us-east-1.yml
|    `-- us-west-1.yml
`-- templates
     |-- API.json
     |-- Database.json
     |-- PrivateSubnets.json
     |-- PublicSubnets.json
     `-- VPC.json

Region File

---
defaults:
  parameters:
    AmiImageId: 'ami-1234abcd'
    CidrBlock: '10.0'
    VPCId:
      Stack: VPC
      Output: VPCId # depend on an output from another stack
  tags:
    Environment: 'Dev1'
    Team: 'X-Team'

stacks:
  - name: VPC

  - name: PublicSubnets
    parameters:
      InternetGateway:
        Region: us-west-1 # optional region definition to retrieve a stack in a different region to which stacker is deploying to
        Stack: VPC
        Output: InternetGateway
    tags:
      Component: 'Svc'

  - name: PrivateSubnets

  - name: API
    capabilities: 'CAPABILITY_IAM' # give permission to create IAM resources
    parameters:
      ChefRunList: 'role[api]'

  - name: DBMaster
    parameters:
      ChefRunList: 'role[db-master]'
      InstanceImageId: 'ami-d3adb33f'
      SubnetId:
        Stack: PublicSubnets
        Output: SubnetIdAZ1
    template_name: Database # use template with a different name

  - name: DBSlave
    parameters:
      ChefRunList: 'role[db-slave]'
    template_name: Database

Authors

Martin Cozzi (martin@cotap.com) and Evan Owen (evan@cotap.com)

License

(The MIT License)

© 2014 Cotap, Inc.

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