Generate Cloudformation Template From Existing Resources

The next step is to provide a template with the resources to import.

Generate cloudformation template from existing resources. I upload the following template with two resources to import. Aws cloudformation simplifies provisioning and management on aws. Aws cloudformer is a template creation tool and it creates aws cloudformation template from our existing resources in aws account. Create a stack from existing resources using the aws cloudformation console. You can also easily update or replicate the stacks as needed.

Or else login to cloudformation console click create stack choose with existing resources import resources. Aws cloudformation get template summary template body file templatetoimport json. I can create a new stack importing existing resources. I can import resources into an existing stack. Click next for template source choose amazon s3 url you can find the url for the cloudformation template from the s3 bucket.

Open the aws cloudformation console. We will be using aws cloudformer to create template of existing infrastructure. To create a cloudformer stack using the aws cloudformation console. A dynamodb table and an s3 bucket. In this case i want to start from scratch so i create a new stack.

We can select any supported aws resources that are running in our account and cloudformer creates a template in an amazon s3 bucket. Select use a sample template and in the select a sample template section select choose a sample template and then select cloudformer from the drop down list. Using the template which we have just created we can provision the aws resources by just click launch stack.