I'm deploying a PAN-OS VM-Series firewall in AWS using CloudFormation. The bootstrap parameters are being passed directly through EC2 user data rather than stored in an object-storage bucket.…
I'm deploying a PAN-OS VM-Series firewall in AWS using CloudFormation. I'm passing the bootstrap parameters directly through EC2 user data rather than using an S3 bucket. The instance…
We're planning to move a large number of existing AWS resources from CloudFormation to OpenTofu. Each customer environment is fairly isolated and may contain EC2 instances, load balancers,…
We manage many customer-isolated AWS environments with CloudFormation, including EC2 instances, load balancers, Auto Scaling Groups, VPCs, security groups, and other services. We're evaluating a migration to OpenTofu…
I'm a professional C#/.NET engineer with more than a decade of development experience. I've used AWS storage services through the SDK in previous projects, but the infrastructure itself…
Rain has been my favorite way to deploy CloudFormation stacks for the past couple of years, so seeing it deprecated is disappointing. The project is archived, with no…
Hey everyone! I'm coming from a background with Terraform and Terragrunt, where I really appreciated the principles of DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) in my infrastructure setups. Now, my…
Is there a way to determine if a CloudFormation stack will successfully create the necessary infrastructure without actually running the create stack command? I'd like to avoid the…
I'm currently setting up a new environment in a different AWS account and I'm looking to migrate from CloudFormation to Terraform for managing my EKS cluster. My experience…
I'm working with EC2 instances that use the Windows Server 2019 AMI, and I'm trying to figure out how to install Python via UserData. However, the format I'm…
I'm managing a complex AWS infrastructure and I'm worried about losing track of my configurations or having to redo them if there are changes made. I'm looking for…
I'm currently using CloudFormation to manage all my infrastructure, including ECS services and task definitions. Initially, when I set up a stack, I create the task definition with…
I'm trying to release my app from localhost using ECS Fargate, but I've hit a major roadblock. The problem arises when I reach the CloudFormation step in my…
I've been diving into CloudFormation and learned that there are two ways to reference Parameter Store or Secrets Manager values. One way is by using a special parameter…
I recently discovered that CloudFormation allows for referencing Parameter Store and Secrets Manager values in two main ways. One way is by defining a special parameter type within…
I've been working on Lambda applications for about a month now without any problems. However, today when I went to create a new application, I noticed that there…
Hey everyone! I'm trying to find an efficient method to automatically generate AWS architecture diagrams for my setup. I've got a few things figured out: I can export…
I'm helping a friend back up their entire AWS account, which includes various resources like instances, databases, Redis, Lambdas, and more. What's the best way to create a…