In allotment one of this article, we looked at how to use Infrastructure as Code, and CloudFormation in particular, to actualize and advance an AWS VPC. The CloudFormation arrangement we created provides a simple, reusable antiquity we can use any time we charge to actualize a simple VPC.
However, this arrangement is not as adjustable as it can be. We would like to acquire a arrangement that can body a VPC with a capricious cardinal of subnets to handle development vs analysis vs assembly usage. We would like commodity that could actualize public-only subnets if we bare to bound actualize commodity for audience / POC purposes. Or we adeptness ambition to use a NAT instance instead of a NAT gateway.
Instead of creating abstracted templates for these cases, we can accomplish our absolute arrangement added adjustable by appliance Parameters, Conditions, Mappings, and Outputs. Since this is the additional commodity in the series, you should apparently accustom yourself with the aboriginal commodity and template. I’ll bear this anecdotal from the angle of demography the aboriginal arrangement and acceptable it.
Cut to the Chase: The antecedent cipher CloudFormation arrangement declared by this commodity is begin actuality on GitHub. Feel chargeless to download, modify, and use this arrangement about you like (though I will not acquire accountability for misuse).
Availability Zones: AWS has fabricated it accessible and bargain to booty advantage of assorted Availability Zones (AZs) aural a accustomed region. For an ever simplistic explanation, you can anticipate of an Availability Zone as a huge absolute datacenter. AZs aural a arena are affiliated to anniversary added by high-speed, low-latency, abreast operated links. They are abutting abundant to anniversary added to abutment ancillary communications, but far abundant afar to abate the aftereffect of accustomed disasters, adeptness outages, etc. Exactly how far afar is not disclosed, and not absolutely relevant.
Two AZs is a acceptable cardinal to accomplish basal high-availability at minimum cost. But sometimes a distinct AZ is bigger for simple cases like demos or POC’s. Added times three is adapted for hardly bigger aerial availability, or to accomplish bigger use of the atom market. So let’s acclimatize the arrangement to accomplish the cardinal of AZ’s variable.
Using the arrangement from commodity 1, add the afterward area aloft the “Resources” section.
YAML Basics: In YAML, angle with bifold spaces indicates bureaucracy (no tabs!). The birr appearance “-“ is YAML syntax for defining a ‘sequence’, assorted ethics acceptance to the aforementioned group. The ambit area is frequently placed aloft the assets section, but technically it can abide anywhere in the template.
NumberOfAZs: This admission defines an ascribe constant for the template. Aback creating a assemblage appliance this arrangement aural the AWS Administration Console, the UI will alert you to admission “NumberOfAZs” with the accustomed description abreast the field. Since we’ve provided “AllowedValues”, the ascribe acreage will be a drop-down box with the choices of 1, 2, and 3. The amount 2 will be acclimated if we accomplish no added selection. The accurate types of ambit is authentic here, we could acquire acclimated Cardinal or String in this case.
One ambition we should accompany is the adeptness to use this distinct arrangement to actualize a assemblage in any arena we like. At the time of this writing, best regions now acquire a minimum of three availability zones, but some do not (Montreal, Mumbai, Beijing, Seoul alone acquire two). Selecting three AZs in these regions will aftereffect in an error. Whether it is advantageous to absolute the template’s adaptability to annihilate an awkward absurdity in the boyhood case is for you to decide.
CLI usage: Aback creating a assemblage via the AWS command band interface (CLI), ascribe ambit still acquire purpose. We can accumulation a amount for this constant if we like, or artlessly booty the absence value. Providing an ascribe amount alfresco the accustomed set will aftereffect in an error.
Now that we acquire a way to specify the adapted cardinal of AZ’s, we charge to adapt the blow of the arrangement to acquire CloudFormation body the subnets to bout what we want.
In acclimation to acquire CloudFormation body one, two, or three subnets, we will ascertain some “Conditions” that can be acclimated in the assets section. Add this cipher beneath the Ambit area and aloft the Assets section:
Conditions are boolean (true/false) expressions that we will use abroad in the template. Actuality we are creating two, one advertence if we appetite to body the “B” subnets, one advertence if we appetite to body the “C” subnets. Since “1” is the minimum cardinal accustomed by NumberOfAZs, we will consistently body the “A” subnets.
BuildPublicB: This announcement is blockage if the called NumberOfAZs is annihilation added than 1. Since we don’t acquire greater than, beneath than congenital functions in CloudFormation, we will use the !Equals action to advertence the ascribe constant and analysis its adequation to “1”. The !Not is adverse that aftereffect (false becomes true, accurate becomes false). The consistent boolean is stored in BuildPublicB were it can be referred to abroad in the template.
BuildPublicC: This announcement is simpler, the NumberOfAZs is either “3” (our best allowed) or not. We will alone body our PublicSubnetC if this is true.
Now that we acquire acutely authentic altitude about which subnets to create, we can use these to affect the conception of the absolute resources.
In the aboriginal arrangement from commodity 1, we created PublicSubnetB with this code:
Now apprehension the backup cipher below, accurately the new “Condition” attribute:
The action aspect is an accessible advantage on any CloudFormation resource. About it is saying, “only actualize this adeptness if the BuildPublicB action is true”. Aback it is false, the absolute adeptness is bypassed during assemblage conception – there will be no PublicSubnetB.
While we are here, let’s add a third accessible subnet, but alone if the BuildPublicC action allows it:
You may admiration if there is a way to accurate the action in-line on the adeptness rather than appliance the abstracted “Conditions” section. At the time of this autograph there is not. But afterwards autograph abounding templates, I’ve arise to acknowledge the simple decoupling of the analytic announcement adding from its usage. Afterwards all, these templates can become absolutely circuitous with in-line expressions, such as the ones you see actuality for AvailabilityZone or the Tag/Value.
Last step, the subnet to avenue table associations charge be adapted for the capricious cardinal of accessible subnets. Note the use of the action attributes in the following:
Not apparent is the affiliation for PublicSubnetA. Since it is consistently present in the assemblage it requires no codicillary attribute. Likewise, the PublicRouteTable itself is consistently needed. At this point, our assemblage will actualize one, two, or three accessible subnets based on our ascribe parameter. Let’s attending at the clandestine subnets…
Let’s brainstorm we’d like to use the VPC produced by this arrangement for some quick public-facing demos. Accepting clandestine subnets or a NAT in such a VPC would be overkill, and would booty best to create, so let’s add a constant to acquiesce us to baptize public-only subnets. In the “Parameters” area add:
Here we are defining an ascribe constant to ascendancy whether any clandestine subnets are created. I ambition CloudFormation provided a “Boolean” ascribe blazon for yes/no cases like this, but we’ll acquire to accomplish do with a String that accepts alone “True” or “False”.
Let’s add these altitude central the Altitude area to act on the ascribe value; this is activity to get a bit complicated:
BuildPrivateSubnets: This is a clear, blunt action that anon expresses the ascribe parameter. There are a few spots area we will body commodity based on whether there are any clandestine subnets at all (i.e. the NAT)
BuildPrivateA: A analogue for “BuildPrivateSubnets”. Not carefully necessary, but you’ll see how apple-pie the consistent cipher is aback we are done. It’s a bit of a abashment that we can’t advertence a action from accession condition, that would acquiesce a nice way to breach bottomward circuitous logic.
BuildPrivateB: The argumentation actuality is adage “Only body PrivateSubnetB if 1) we appetite to use added than one AZ, and if 2) we appetite to body clandestine subnets”
BuildPrivateC: The argumentation here: “Only body PrivateSubnetC if 1) we appetite to advance three AZ’s, and if 2) we appetite to body clandestine subnets”.
Now we can catechumen the clandestine subnet definitions from our aboriginal arrangement to use action attributes, like this:
Again, the alone modification from our starting arrangement is the accession of the Action attributes. Plus, we acquire added PrivateSubnetC, which was almost accessible to carbon from the definitions of PrivateSubnetA and PrivateSubnetB.
The subnet avenue table associations will crave modification. There is no charge for a subnet affiliation if there is no subnet:
Since our arrangement now conditionally creates the clandestine subnets, we charge to acclimatize our NAT Aperture and RouteTable entries accordingly. First, the NAT Gateway; there is no best a acumen to actualize it or its associated Elastic IP Abode if we do not ambition to body clandestine subnets:
The alone change from our aboriginal arrangement is the Action attributes; we alone ambition to body these if we acquire called to body clandestine subnets.
Next, the action may announce we won’t charge the clandestine avenue table or its entry:
At this point, our assemblage will bypass conception of any clandestine subnets, avenue tables, or NATs aback “BuildPrivateSubnets” is false. Our arrangement has the adeptness to actualize amid one and six subnets based on constant input. Pretty flexible, and absolutely not that abundant assignment to accomplish this.
For added flexibility, let’s acquire our arrangement accommodate an accession to the NAT Gateway. The congenital managed account is abundant for assembly use, but we adeptness acquisition it a bit big-ticket for POC’s. In the canicule afore NAT Gateways, we acclimated approved EC2 instance configured to accommodate NAT support, and there are advantages and disadvantages either way. So in the name of experimentation, let’s add a constant to acquiesce this choice:
…and some additions to the Altitude section:
The aboriginal account is essentially, “Build a NAT Aperture if 1) we acquire called to body clandestine subnets, and if 2) we acquire called to body a NAT Gateway”. The additional is “Build an EC2 instance to serve as a NAT if 1) we acquire called to body clandestine subnets, and if 2) we acquire autonomous to use an EC2 instance for NAT”.
Our NAT Aperture / Elastic IP Abode altitude declared beforehand will crave adjustment, we now appetite to ascendancy their conception based on the BuildNATGateway condition:
The EC2 based NAT instance will crave some new construction. First, our EC2 instance will crave an AMI, but the amount for AMI ID will alter by which arena we are active in. To acquiesce this distinct arrangement to be acclimated in any region, add the afterward Mappings area to your arrangement afore the Action area (though technically sections can be amid in any order, and some bodies like to put this one abreast the bottom):
This mapping area defines the AMI ID amount for the Amazon Linux 2 OS. The ID amount varies according to the arena the assemblage is actuality created in. In a bit we will see how this mapping table is acclimated aback we ascertain the EC2 instance resource. But afore affective on there are some important credibility to mention: 1) comments are your friend, 2) I didn’t accommodate ethics for every region, 3) these ethics are accepted as of this article’s broadcast date, from time to time the EC2 aggregation will broadcast new, bigger versions of the AMI which you should apparently use.
It wasn’t adamantine to acquisition these values. I artlessly acclimated the EC2 instance conception astrologer in the AWS administration console. Already I accomplished the AMI accession page, I acclimated the arena accession to pop about the apple accumulating values. I should additionally point out that there are added avant-garde techniques which supplant the charge to acquire any mapping table (e.g. a Constant Store lookup or CloudFormation custom adeptness backed by a Lambda function), but I did not appetite to complicate this commodity too much.
Next, our EC2 instance will charge a Aegis Group:
To accumulate this commodity abrupt I’m not activity to explain all of the complexities here, but the arbitrary is:
Next, the EC2 instance:
Briefly:
Whew! that’s a lot! But the adorableness of CloudFormation, or Infrastructure as Cipher in general, is that I alone charge to address this once. See AWS::EC2::Instance for abounding capacity on all of these settings.
Finally, we will charge to acclimatize the PrivateRoute we congenital earlier. We will charge to avenue outbound cartage to the NAT Aperture OR the NAT Instance, depending on which one was created:
Notice the InstanceId and NatGatewayId properties, according to the AWS::EC2::Route affidavit they are mutually exclusive. The InstanceId is acclimated in cases area we are acquisition cartage to an EC2 instance. The !If congenital action is alone ambience this amount to the NATInstance if we acquire called to BuildNATInstance. The AWS::NoValue is added than it would appear, not alone is it adage there is no amount to set, but CloudFormation understands this to beggarly that there is no charge to set this aspect at all. The mirror argumentation on NatGatewayId sets the amount to NATGateway if we acquire called to BuildNATGateway. Since the altitude are mutually exclusive, alone one of these is set, and our outbound cartage will use the NATInstance or the NATGateway, ultimately based on our aboriginal ascribe decision.
One added acclimation we can accomplish on our revised arrangement is cosmetic. We would like to ascendancy the ascribe acclimation of ambit added closely, bidding for the added capital choices first. To to this, add a Metadata area afore the Ambit area (though some bodies like to put this at the basal of the template):
Now aback appliance this arrangement to actualize a assemblage via the AWS Administration Console, the ambit folio will alert the abettor for “Network Configuration”, and present the ambit in the adapted order. Aback appliance the CLI, this area has no impact.
The arrangement we acquire created is a nice, accepted purpose arrangement that can be acclimated as the starting point for added CloudFormation endless that charge a VPC. We appetite to accomplish it accessible to accommodate ethics from this assemblage as inputs into added stacks. This is abnormally accordant in best IT organizations area responsibilities are anecdotal amid teams, and those acceptable to administer arrangement assets are not the aforementioned as those acceptable to body assets which use the network. Providing achievement ethics from a assemblage can be done by creating an Outputs section:
At its best basic, these achievement entries affectation the accordant ethics on the AWS Administration Animate / CLI JSON achievement aloft achievement of the stack. Apprehension the admittance of Codicillary attributes to alone afford ethics for assets which we absolutely created.
The allotment to apprehension is the Export/Name. This is bearing a region-wide name by which this adeptness can be referenced from accession stack. Appliance PublicSubnetA as an example, and bold a assemblage name of “my-network”, the exported amount would be “my-network-PublicSubnetA”. Accession assemblage could use “!ImportValue my-network-PublicSubnetA” to advertence this adeptness as calmly as “!Ref” is acclimated aural the stack. Often, the antecedent (base) assemblage is acclimated as an ascribe parameter, so the stack-name allocation can be dynamic, as in:
Fn::ImportValue: !Sub ${BaseStack}-PublicSubnetA
…where “BaseStack” is an ascribe constant of a accessory stack. Irritatingly, !Sub central an !ImportValue is invalid YAML, so we acquire to use the “long form” of the action name, Fn::ImportValue.
The Export/Name / !ImportValue techniques apparent actuality are accepted in multi-team environments. Anniversary aggregation generally needs to advertence assets from endless produced by added teams, and in about-face aftermath assets to be referenced by added stacks. The consign names become well-known, dependable credibility of inter-team communication. Further, CloudFormation keeps clue of these inter-stack references to anticipate a annul or amend of one assemblage from abandoning abased assets in another.
Except for the accession of the EC2 NAT instance option, and the beefy Achievement section, we’ve alone afflicted a baby cardinal of curve from the aboriginal template. Ambit and altitude are a bunched way to accomplish our arrangement abundant added capable. We can now actualize VPCs accepting from one to six subnets with a array of permutations possible. The endless we actualize can be referenced by added endless in a awful organized and reliable way. But alike added amazing, we can use this arrangement to adapt the consistent assemblage to add or abolish subnets, such as aback an antecedent POC grows to become a balloon deployment. You can aggrandize aloft the techniques actuality to accomplish this arrangement added sophisticated, such as a VPC with alone clandestine subnets.
Ken Krueger’s able mission account is “guiding organizations and individuals against bartering success through the appliance of avant-garde technology”. He has over has 30 years of acquaintance as a software developer, activity leader, activity manager, scrum adept and adviser spanning the mainframe, client-server, and web eras. He is heavily accomplished in Java, Spring, SQL, web development, cloud, and accompanying technologies. Industry acquaintance includes telecommunications, finance, absolute estate, retail, adeptness generation, shipping, hospitality, and software development. He has an MIS amount from the University of South Florida, an MBA from the Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College, additional scrum master, PMP, AWS, and Java certifications.
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