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Jason Michael
Jason Michael

Reputation: 569

Use CloudFormer in Round-Trip Engineering of AWS Resources

I would like to use CloudFormer in an automated way to generate templates of existing resources in my VPC. I can create the cloudformer instance using Ruby SDK CloudFormation::Client.create_stack() and tear it down using CloudFormation::Client.delete_stack() - but while it's running, I can't figure out how to talk to it to ask it to generate cloudformation templates for resources. I envision doing something like:

for every SecurityGroup in VPC:
    ask CloudFormer to generate a cloudformation template of the SecurityGroup
    store the template in S3
    scan the template for compliance with business rules etc.
end

How do I talk to CloudFormer once it's running (in a non-interactive way)? Has anyone done this? I hope I don't have to use Selenium etc. to talk to it's webUI.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 221

Answers (1)

Blair Nangle
Blair Nangle

Reputation: 1541

CloudFormer is still in beta phase and does not have command-line-interface tools in the same way that other first-class AWS services do, so, unfortunately, there is no way to interact with the running application programmatically.

Upvotes: 3

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