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Griffin Maree
Griffin Maree

Reputation: 61

AWS Cloud Formation. Create Stack from account architecture

My question is simple. Is there a way to import my current architecture in the system account I'm using in my AWS account as it's own stack?

What I mean is ... My account has a dozen Lambda functions, S3 buckets, databases and such. This is all deeply integrated. Is there a way to automatically have a CloudFormation stack created? this using my existing resources as a blueprint instead of me manually re-creating everything in CloudFormation myself?

I would call this an Anti-Stack, excuse the pun. But in all seriousness, this is basically the reverse of a stack. Creating a stack from my architecture, instead of creating architecture from a stack.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 145

Answers (1)

Marcin
Marcin

Reputation: 238081

There is no full out-of-the box solution for that. As far as AWS is concerned, you would have to import resources into CloudFormation. This requires you to prepare all the templates yourself with match your current architecture. This can be quite troublesome and time-consuming task, but its doable.

AWS used to develop CloudFormer tool which simplifies this process, but the tool is no longer maintained by AWS.

Instead, there is a third party, open-source tool called former2 which can help you in generation of templates from your existing infrastructure. The former2 is used by corporate clients of AWS as explained in the AWS blog post.

Upvotes: 4

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