Cloudformation

Cloudformation is the baked in Infrastructure as Code solution of AWS. See: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/ (opens new window)

Usage at Giffits

We use Cloudformation in different places to automate most of our AWS infrastructure management.

Tooling

To be able to apply and configure out Cloudformation templates from conventional git repositories in contrast to the AWS native management UI we need additional tooling.

Installing Sceptre

Windows

• Install Python 3.8 (sceptre does not support >3.8 yet)

  • Download and install Python 3.8.6 from python.org (opens new window)
  • Add the following paths to your Path variable (Don't forget to replace [YOUR USER NAME])
    • Open a CMD window (Win+R -> cmd.exe -> Return)
    • setx path "%path%;C:\Users\[YOUR USER NAME]\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38"
    • setx path "%path%;C:\Users\[YOUR USER NAME]\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\Scripts"

• Install sceptre via pip

  • Open a CMD window (Win+R -> cmd.exe -> Return)
  • Run pip install sceptre==2.4.0

• You should now be able to just run sceptre in CMD.