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cloudformationfacts

Puppet module providing AWS CloudFormation metadata facts
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Version information

  • 0.2.0 (latest)
  • 0.1.0
released Sep 20th 2017
This version is compatible with:
  • Puppet Enterprise 2018.1.x, 2017.3.x, 2017.2.x, 2017.1.x, 2016.5.x, 2016.4.x
  • Puppet >= 4.7.0 < 6.0.0
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Start using this module

  • r10k or Code Manager
  • Bolt
  • Manual installation
  • Direct download

Add this module to your Puppetfile:

mod 'salekseev-cloudformationfacts', '0.2.0'
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Add this module to your Bolt project:

bolt module add salekseev-cloudformationfacts
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Manually install this module globally with Puppet module tool:

puppet module install salekseev-cloudformationfacts --version 0.2.0

Direct download is not typically how you would use a Puppet module to manage your infrastructure, but you may want to download the module in order to inspect the code.

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Documentation

salekseev/cloudformationfacts — version 0.2.0 Sep 20th 2017

cloudformationfacts

Table of Contents

  1. Description
  2. Setup - The basics of getting started with cloudformationfacts
  3. Limitations - OS compatibility, etc.

Description

The cloudformationfacts module provides AWS CloudFormation metadata facts which are useful for clustered applications that need to discover other members.

Setup

Setup Requirements

IAM instance role with the following minimum permissions:

{
   "Version": "2012-10-17",
   "Statement": [{
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
         "ec2:DescribeInstances",
         "ec2:DescribeTags"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
   }
   ]
}

aws-sdk-core ruby gem installed on puppet agent for example:

/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/bin/gem install aws-sdk-core -v '~> 2'

Limitations

This module would only provide facts on AWS CloudFormation stacks.