Nesting and Existing Stack

• Nested Stacks are created as a part of other stack
• To create Nested Stacks the resource ‘AWS::CloudFormation::Stack’ will be used
• Scenario: You already have cloud formation template written to create vpc and if you want to reuse that template rather than rewriting the script every time use nested stacks
  • Write a reusable template and upload to s3 bucket
  • Use this s3 buckets url in your current template

{
    "AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09",
    "Resources": {
        
        "mys3": {
            "Type": "AWS::S3::Bucket",
            "Properties": {
                "AccessControl": "PublicRead",
                "BucketName": "testings3qt.com"
            }
        },
        
        "NestedStack": {
            "Type": "AWS::CloudFormation::Stack",
            "DeletionPolicy": "Retain",
            "Properties": {
                "TemplateURL": "https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/cf-templates-1sv6xf2hjs8h8-us-west-2/2020150aju-common.json",
                "Parameters": {
                    "cidrrange": "10.10.0.0/16"
                }

            }
        }
        
        
    }
}

• Look into DeletionPolicy over here
• Exercise: Findout a solution to fetch the details about nested stack other ref
  • Solution Refer Here

Calling AWS Cloudformation from CLI

• AWS CLI Installation and configuration Refer Here
• Create a folder cf create a file called as common.json with your cf script

{
    "AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09",
    "Parameters": {
        "cidrrange": {
            "Type": "String",
            "Default": "192.168.0.0/16"
        }
    },
    "Resources": {
        "commonvpc": {
            "Type": "AWS::EC2::VPC",
            "Properties": {
                "CidrBlock": {
                    "Ref": "cidrrange"
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "Outputs": {
        "vpcid": {
            "Value": {
                "Ref": "commonvpc"
            }
        }
    }
}

• To run this from cli, you need to create stack

cd cf\
 aws cloudformation create-stack --stack-name fromcli --template-body file://common.json --parameters ParameterKey=cidrrange,ParameterValue=192.168.0.0/16

• To describe stacks status

aws cloudformation describe-stacks --stack-name fromcli

• now make changes in your template and update the stack

aws cloudformation update-stack --stack-name fromcli --template-body file://common.json --parameters ParameterKey=cidrrange,ParameterValue=192.168.0.0/16

• deleting the stack

aws cloudformation delete-stack --stack-name fromcli

Stack Sets

• Refer Here
• Refer Here for how to create stack sets.

Next Steps

• Create Azure Account