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Prakash26790
Prakash26790

Reputation: 787

how to get output value of userdata using cloudformation template?

I am having cloudformation template which contains two instances with userdata property.

I need to fetch the data from one instance's userdata and pass to another instances userdata.

For example(from below), need to fetch "test" from instance1, and pass to instance2 userdata.

Sample Template:

"instance1": {
  "Type": "AWS::EC2::Instance",
  "Properties": {
"UserData": {
      "Fn::Base64": {
        "Fn::Join": [
          "",
          [
            "#!/bin/bash\n",
            "set -x\n",
            "echo test\n",
          ]]}}}},

"instance2": {
  "Type": "AWS::EC2::Instance",
  "Properties": {
"UserData": {
      "Fn::Base64": {
        "Fn::Join": [
          "",
          [
            "#!/bin/bash\n",
            "set -x\n",
            //fetch the value
          ]]}}}},

Upvotes: 5

Views: 1563

Answers (1)

Vor
Vor

Reputation: 35149

Basically you have 2 options:

  1. Use some sort of a shared memory ( ElastiCache, RDS, S3.... )
  2. scp/ssh directly to another instance and fetch what ever info you need.

I would suggest using shared memory for example S3:

On instance 1:

echo "test" > /tmp/myfile
aws s3 cp /tmp/myfile s3://<bucket>/myfile

On instance 2:

aws s3 cp s3://<bucket>/myfile /tmp/myfile
cat /tmp/myfile

Upvotes: 4

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