Tag: CloudFormation
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AWS Accounts as Cattle
Manage infrastructure as cattle not pets and automating DNS migration between accounts
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Plesk Migration to AWS
I have been running my hosting on 1and1 hosting (now Ionos) since the early days of the web. In the years I’ve been on that service, I’ve moved it a few times from one of their servers to another (mostly to save a few bucks), so it was time to do a Plesk migration to […]
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AWS Login Code As Infrastructure CloudFormation
I set up AWS accounts in a hub and spoke model for access using AWS Organizations for login. This meaning that I have an AWS organization that is under my master account. I have my SSO federated login in a single login account whose only purpose is to do the federated login. After logging in, […]
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CloudFormation Custom Resources
CloudFormation is the Amazon Web Services (AWS) method of creating repeatable infrastructure as code. Technically templates that describe resources to be built in AWS. There are things that either were never implemented in CloudFormation, or need some logic that exceeds what CloudFormation does. For those cases, AWS provided the capability of adding macros and custom […]
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AWS Cloudformation with Optional Resources
I had a situation where I had to bypass creation of some resources in CloudFormation. Either the resources already exist, or I just don’t want to create things depending on conditions. To achieve this it turns out that CloudFormation actually has a nice facility, although it is a bit awkward.