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Node.js Amazon Cloudformation template
{
"AWSTemplateFormatVersion" : "2010-09-09",
"Description" : "Node.js server",
"Parameters" : {
"KeyName" : {
"Description" : "Name of an existing EC2 KeyPair to enable SSH access",
"Type" : "String"
},
"InstanceType" : {
"Type" : "String",
"Default" : "m1.small",
"AllowedValues" : [ "m1.small","m1.medium","m1.large","m1.xlarge","m2.xlarge","m2.2xlarge","m2.4xlarge","c1.medium","c1.xlarge","cc1.4xlarge"],
"Description" : "EC2 instance type (e.g. m1.small)"
},
"SecurityGroupName" : {
"Description" : "Security group name",
"Type" : "String"
}
},
"Mappings" : {
"InstanceTypeArch" : {
"m1.small" : { "Arch" : "64" },
"m1.medium" : { "Arch" : "64" },
"m1.large" : { "Arch" : "64" },
"m1.xlarge" : { "Arch" : "64" },
"m2.xlarge" : { "Arch" : "64" },
"m2.2xlarge" : { "Arch" : "64" },
"m2.4xlarge" : { "Arch" : "64" },
"c1.medium" : { "Arch" : "64" },
"c1.xlarge" : { "Arch" : "64" },
"cc1.4xlarge" : { "Arch" : "64HVM" }
},
"RegionImageZone" : {
"us-east-1" : { "64" : "ami-f565ba9c", "64HVM" : "ami-e965ba80" },
"us-west-2" : { "64" : "ami-30c64a00", "64HVM" : "NOT_YET_SUPPORTED" },
"us-west-1" : { "64" : "ami-d98cd49c", "64HVM" : "NOT_YET_SUPPORTED" },
"eu-west-1" : { "64" : "ami-ff231b8b", "64HVM" : "NOT_YET_SUPPORTED" },
"ap-southeast-1" : { "64" : "ami-b23374e0", "64HVM" : "NOT_YET_SUPPORTED" },
"ap-northeast-1" : { "64" : "ami-047bca05", "64HVM" : "NOT_YET_SUPPORTED" },
"sa-east-1" : { "64" : "ami-ae855bb3", "64HVM" : "NOT_YET_SUPPORTED" }
}
},
"Resources" : {
"CfnUser" : {
"Type" : "AWS::IAM::User",
"Properties" : {
"Path": "/",
"Policies": [ {
"PolicyName": "root",
"PolicyDocument": { "Statement": [ {
"Effect":"Allow",
"Action":"cloudformation:DescribeStackResource",
"Resource":"*"
} ] }
} ]
}
},
"HostKeys" : {
"Type" : "AWS::IAM::AccessKey",
"Properties" : {
"UserName" : { "Ref" : "CfnUser" }
}
},
"NodejsInstance" : {
"Type" : "AWS::EC2::Instance",
"Metadata" : {
"AWS::CloudFormation::Init" : {
"config" : {
"packages" : {
"rpm" : {
"nodejs" : "http://nodejs.tchol.org/repocfg/amzn1/nodejs-stable-release.noarch.rpm"
},
"yum": {
"gcc-c++": [],
"make": [],
"git" : [],
"nodejs-compat-symlinks": [],
"npm": []
}
}
}
}
},
"Properties" : {
"InstanceType" : { "Ref" : "InstanceType" },
"ImageId" : { "Fn::FindInMap" : [ "RegionImageZone", { "Ref" : "AWS::Region" },
{ "Fn::FindInMap" : [ "InstanceTypeArch", { "Ref" : "InstanceType" }, "Arch" ] } ] },
"SecurityGroups" : [ { "Ref" : "SecurityGroupName" } ],
"KeyName" : { "Ref" : "KeyName" },
"UserData" : { "Fn::Base64" : { "Fn::Join" : ["", [
"#!/bin/bash\n",
"yum update -y aws-cfn-bootstrap\n",
"## Error reporting helper function\n",
"function error_exit\n",
"{\n",
" /opt/aws/bin/cfn-signal -e 1 -r \"$1\" '", { "Ref" : "WaitHandleNodejsInstance" }, "'\n",
" exit 1\n",
"}\n",
"## Initialize CloudFormation bits\n",
"/opt/aws/bin/cfn-init -v -s ", { "Ref" : "AWS::StackName" }, " -r NodejsInstance",
" --access-key ", { "Ref" : "HostKeys" },
" --secret-key ", {"Fn::GetAtt": ["HostKeys", "SecretAccessKey"]},
" --region ", { "Ref" : "AWS::Region" }, " > /tmp/cfn-init.log 2>&1 || error_exit $(</tmp/cfn-init.log)\n",
"## Raise file descriptor limits\n",
"echo '* hard nofile 100000' | tee -a /etc/security/limits.conf\n",
"echo '* soft nofile 100000' | tee -a /etc/security/limits.conf\n",
"ulimit -n 100000\n",
"## CloudFormation signal that setup is complete\n",
"/opt/aws/bin/cfn-signal -e 0 -r \"NodejsInstance setup complete\" '", { "Ref" : "WaitHandleNodejsInstance" }, "'\n"
] ] } }
}
},
"WaitHandleNodejsInstance" : {
"Type" : "AWS::CloudFormation::WaitConditionHandle",
"Properties" : {}
},
"WaitConditionNodejsInstance" : {
"Type" : "AWS::CloudFormation::WaitCondition",
"DependsOn" : "NodejsInstance",
"Properties" : {
"Handle" : { "Ref" : "WaitHandleNodejsInstance" },
"Timeout" : "300"
}
}
},
"Outputs" : {
"InstanceName" : {
"Value" : { "Fn::GetAtt" : [ "NodejsInstance", "PublicDnsName" ] },
"Description" : "public DNS name of the new NodejsInstance"
}
}
}
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jghaines commented Mar 5, 2016

This no longer works since nodejs.tchol.org repo is gone

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