CFN-Template-Kitchen-Sink

Description

This is a big ass CFN template that I have created when working with customers using AWS services. The purpose of this template was to allow me to reproduce a customers issues and get me 80 - 90% of the way in one push of a button, no matter what their setup was.

I'm releasing this publicly in hopes that it can be a sample project that helps others, or maybe just shows some example resources that others can use to build their own templates.

Overview

This template sets up more resources that you probably actually need, but it's a good catch all that will get you 80 - 90% of the way towards what you need. After the stack completes, you can tweak the resources in the console or CLI.

Here is an overview of what the template creates:

• Two VPCs, one called 'Provider VPC' and another called 'Consumer VPC'. This is in reference to the VPC PrivateLink terms for a VPC Endpoint Service.
  • Ironically, this template does not create any PrivateLink resources, because at the time of creation, these were not supported in CFN
• Each VPC is setup for two AZs, and provides a public and private subnet for each AZ
  • An EC2 instance is created in each subnet, each with UserData that configures the following:
    • Installs Apache and the CloudWatch Logs agent
    • Configures support in Apache for ProxyProtocol
    • Downloads an SSL certificate and key (which you need to add to the template)
    • Configures Apache to listen on 3 ports: 80, 443, 8080
    • Creates an awesome default page
    • starts apache and cw logs agent
• One of each type of Load Balancer (Classic, Application, Network)
  • Configures 3 listeners: 80, 443, 8080
  • registers all public and private instances
• Configures a VPC Peering Connection between the two VPCs

Visual

How to use

• Upload all files to an S3 bucket
• Create the stack referencing the 'CFN-Template-Kitchen-Sink-root.yaml' file
• In the parameters, reference the bucket name and key that the files are stored in. It will create multiple nested stacks using these params

Conclusion

Feel free to fork this project, submit a PR, or simply download and use. However, I don't believe I will continue improving this template. It currently is working, but won't be seeing any love moving forward