Railo CloudFormation example with nginx

railo_cloudformation.json

{
  "AWSTemplateFormatVersion" : "2010-09-09",
  
  "Description" : "AWS CloudFormation template to deploy railo4/tomcat7/nginx.",
  
  "Parameters" : {
      
    "KeyName" : {
      "Default" : "bacfug",
      "Description" : "Name of an existing EC2 KeyPair to enable SSH access to the instances",
      "Type" : "String"
    },    
    
    "InstanceType" : {
      "Description" : "EC2 instance type",
      "Type" : "String",
      "Default" : "t1.micro",
      "AllowedValues" : [ "t1.micro","m1.small","m1.medium","m1.large","m1.xlarge","m2.xlarge","m2.2xlarge","m2.4xlarge","c1.medium","c1.xlarge","cc1.4xlarge","cc2.8xlarge","cg1.4xlarge"],
      "ConstraintDescription" : "must be a valid EC2 instance type."
    }
  },
  
  "Mappings" : {
    "AWSInstanceType2Arch" : {
      "t1.micro"    : { "Arch" : "64" },
      "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" },
      "cc2.8xlarge" : { "Arch" : "64HVM" },
      "cg1.4xlarge" : { "Arch" : "64HVM" }
    },

    "AWSRegionArch2AMI" : {
      "us-east-1"      : { "32" : "ami-31814f58", "64" : "ami-1b814f72", "64HVM" : "ami-0da96764" },
      "us-west-2"      : { "32" : "ami-38fe7308", "64" : "ami-96ef63a6", "64HVM" : "NOT_YET_SUPPORTED" },
      "us-west-1"      : { "32" : "ami-11d68a54", "64" : "ami-1bd68a5e", "64HVM" : "NOT_YET_SUPPORTED" },
      "eu-west-1"      : { "32" : "ami-973b06e3", "64" : "ami-953b06e1", "64HVM" : "NOT_YET_SUPPORTED" },
      "ap-southeast-1" : { "32" : "ami-b4b0cae6", "64" : "ami-beb0caec", "64HVM" : "NOT_YET_SUPPORTED" },
      "ap-northeast-1" : { "32" : "ami-0644f007", "64" : "ami-0a44f00b", "64HVM" : "NOT_YET_SUPPORTED" },
      "sa-east-1"      : { "32" : "ami-3e3be423", "64" : "ami-3c3be421", "64HVM" : "NOT_YET_SUPPORTED" }
    }
  },
    
  "Resources" : {     
    "CfnUser" : {
      "Type" : "AWS::IAM::User",
      "Properties" : {
        "Path": "/",
        "Policies": [{
          "PolicyName": "root",
          "PolicyDocument": { "Statement":[{
            "Effect":"Allow",
            "Action"   : [
              "cloudformation:DescribeStackResource",
              "s3:GetObject"
            ],
            "Resource":"*"
          }]}
        }]
      }
    },

    "CfnKeys" : {
      "Type" : "AWS::IAM::AccessKey",
      "Properties" : {
        "UserName" : {"Ref": "CfnUser"}
      }
    },

    "HostKeys" : {
      "Type" : "AWS::IAM::AccessKey",
      "Properties" : {
        "UserName" : {"Ref": "CfnUser"}
      }
    },

    "WebServer": {  
      "Type": "AWS::EC2::Instance",
      "Metadata" : {
        "AWS::CloudFormation::Init" : {
          "config" : {
            "packages" : {
              "apt" : {
                "nginx"        : [],
                "tomcat6"  : [],
                "git" : []
              }
            },

            "sources": {
            "/tmp/railo/": "http://www.getrailo.org/down.cfm?item=/railo/remote/download/4.0.0.013/custom/all/railo-4.0.0.013-jars.tar.gz"
            ,"/tmp/tomcat_conf/": "https://gist.github.com/gists/3745673/download"
            },

            "files" : {
              "/tmp/index.cfm" : {
                "content" : { "Fn::Join" : ["", [
                  "<cfdump var='#server#'>\n"
                ]]},
                "mode"   : "000755",
                "owner"  : "root",
                "group"  : "root"
              },
              "/tmp/nginx/default" : {
                "content" : { "Fn::Join" : ["", [
                  "server {\n",
                    "# Main Railo proxy handler\n",
                     "location ~ \\.(cfm|cfml|cfc|jsp|cfr)(.*)$ {\n",
                      "proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;\n",
                      "proxy_redirect off;\n",
                      "proxy_set_header Host $host;\n",
                      "proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host;\n",
                      "proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Server $host;\n",
                      "proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;\n",
                      "proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;\n",
                     "}\n",
                            "root /usr/share/nginx/www;\n",
                            "index index.cfm index.html index.htm;\n",
                    "}\n"
                ]]},
                "mode"   : "000755",
                "owner"  : "root",
                "group"  : "root"
              }
            }

            ,"services" : {
              "sysvinit" : {  
                "nginx"    : { "enabled" : "true", "ensureRunning" : "true" },
                "tomcat6"    : { "enabled" : "true", "ensureRunning" : "true" }
              }
            }
            
          }
        }
      },
      "Properties": {
        "ImageId" : { "Fn::FindInMap" : [ "AWSRegionArch2AMI", { "Ref" : "AWS::Region" },
                          { "Fn::FindInMap" : [ "AWSInstanceType2Arch", { "Ref" : "InstanceType" }, "Arch" ] } ] },
        "InstanceType"   : { "Ref" : "InstanceType" },
        "SecurityGroups" : [ {"Ref" : "WebServerSecurityGroup"} ],
        "KeyName"        : { "Ref" : "KeyName" },
        "UserData"       : { "Fn::Base64" : { "Fn::Join" : ["", [
          "#!/bin/bash\n",
          "apt-get update\n",

          "# Helper function\n",
          "function error_exit\n",
          "{\n",
          "  cfn-signal -e 1 -r \"$1\" '", { "Ref" : "WaitHandle" }, "'\n",
          "  exit 1\n",
          "}\n",

          "apt-get -y install python-setuptools\n",
          "easy_install https://s3.amazonaws.com/cloudformation-examples/aws-cfn-bootstrap-1.0-6.tar.gz\n",

          "cfn-init -v -s ", { "Ref" : "AWS::StackName" }, " -r WebServer ",
          "    --access-key ",  { "Ref" : "HostKeys" },
          "    --secret-key ", {"Fn::GetAtt": ["HostKeys", "SecretAccessKey"]},
          "    --region ", { "Ref" : "AWS::Region" }, " || error_exit 'Failed to run cfn-init'\n",

          "chown tomcat6 /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/ROOT\n",
          "chown tomcat6 /usr/share/tomcat6/lib\n",

          "cp /tmp/index.cfm /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/ROOT/index.cfm\n",

          "cp /tmp/railo/railo-4.0.0.013-jars/* /usr/share/tomcat6/lib/\n",

          "cp /tmp/tomcat_conf/gist3745673-f5ade74eed784f31aea0628b90ce3873e0a5103c/web.xml /var/lib/tomcat6/conf/web.xml\n",

          "cp /tmp/nginx/default /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default\n",

          "/etc/init.d/tomcat6 restart\n",
          "/etc/init.d/nginx restart\n",


          "# All is well so signal success\n",
          "cfn-signal -e 0 -r \"Railo setup complete\" '", { "Ref" : "WaitHandle" }, "'\n"

        ]]}}        
      }
    }

    ,"WaitHandle" : {
      "Type" : "AWS::CloudFormation::WaitConditionHandle"
    }

    ,"WaitCondition" : {
      "Type" : "AWS::CloudFormation::WaitCondition",
      "DependsOn" : "WebServer",
      "Properties" : {
        "Handle" : {"Ref" : "WaitHandle"},
        "Timeout" : "300"
      }
    },

    "WebServerSecurityGroup" : {
      "Type" : "AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup",
      "Properties" : {
        "GroupDescription" : "Enable HTTP access via port 80,8080, and SSH access",
        "SecurityGroupIngress" : [
          {"IpProtocol" : "tcp", "FromPort" : "80", "ToPort" : "80", "CidrIp" : "0.0.0.0/0"},
          {"IpProtocol" : "tcp", "FromPort" : "8080", "ToPort" : "8080", "CidrIp" : "0.0.0.0/0"},
          {"IpProtocol" : "tcp", "FromPort" : "22", "ToPort" : "22", "CidrIp" : "0.0.0.0/0"}
        ]
      }      
    }

  },
  
  "Outputs" : {
    "WebsiteURL" : {
      "Value" : { "Fn::Join" : ["", ["http://", { "Fn::GetAtt" : [ "WebServer", "PublicDnsName" ]}, ""]] },
      "Description" : "Railo Installation"
    }
  }
}

This is awesome! Same question about tomcat 7 vs tomcat 6 where in this template is that controlled? Is that based on the AMI used? Hopefully this will work...