cloudformation.md

cloudformation

Today I learnt ...

... how to create a stack programatically and clean up

2023-12-18T17:00:11+00:00

Create a stack for a public S3 bucket and remove it

Resources

• Bucket policy
  • https://cloudkatha.com/how-to-create-s3-bucket-policy-using-cloudformation/

Prerequisites

• aws-cli & AWS access credentials
  • https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-welcome.html

Recipe

1. Save this CloudFormation template to a file howapped-storage-bucket.yml

   AWSTemplateFormatVersion: "2010-09-09"
   Description: Welcome to Howapped Storage
   Resources:
   	HowappedStorageBucket:
   	Type: "AWS::S3::Bucket"
   

2. Create the stack

   aws cloudformation create-stack --stack-name howapped-storage-bucket --template-body file://howapped-storage-bucket.yml

3. Check it exists

   aws s3 ls | grep howapped-storage-bucket

4. Delete it

   aws cloudformation delete-stack --stack-name howapped-storage-bucket