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=========== troposphere ===========

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About

troposphere – library to create AWS CloudFormation_ descriptions

The troposphere library allows for easier creation of the AWS CloudFormation JSON by writing Python code to describe the AWS resources. Troposphere also includes some basic support for OpenStack resources_ via heat.

To facilitate catching CloudFormation or JSON errors early the library has property and type checking built into the classes.

Installation Instructions

troposphere can be installed using the pip distribution system for python by issuing::

$ pip install troposphere

Alternatively, you can run use setup.py to install by cloning this repository and issuing::

# python setup.py install

Examples

A simple example to create an instance would look like this::

>>> from troposphere import Ref, Template
>>> import troposphere.ec2 as ec2
>>> t = Template()
>>> instance = ec2.Instance("myinstance")
>>> instance.ImageId = "ami-951945d0"
>>> instance.InstanceType = "t1.micro"
>>> t.add_resource(instance)

>>> print(t.to_json())
{
    "Resources": {
        "myinstance": {
            "Properties": {
                "ImageId": "ami-951945d0",
                "InstanceType": "t1.micro"
            },
            "Type": "AWS::EC2::Instance"
        }
    }
}

Alternatively, parameters can be used instead of properties::

>>> instance = ec2.Instance("myinstance", ImageId="ami-951945d0", InstanceType="t1.micro")
>>> t.add_resource(instance)

And add_resource() returns the object to make it easy to use with Ref()::

>>> instance = t.add_resource(ec2.Instance("myinstance", ImageId="ami-951945d0", InstanceType="t1.micro"))
>>> Ref(instance)

Examples of the error checking (full tracebacks removed for clarity):

Incorrect property being set on AWS resource::

>>> import troposphere.ec2 as ec2
>>> ec2.Instance("ec2instance", image="i-XXXX")
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
AttributeError: AWS::EC2::Instance object does not support attribute image

Incorrect type for AWS resource property::

>>> ec2.Instance("ec2instance", ImageId=1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
TypeError: ImageId is , expected

Missing required property for the AWS resource::

>>> from troposphere import Template
>>> import troposphere.ec2 as ec2
>>> t = Template()
>>> t.add_resource(ec2.Instance("ec2instance", InstanceType="m3.medium"))

>>> print(t.to_json())
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
ValueError: Resource ImageId required in type AWS::EC2::Instance

Currently supported AWS resource types

AWS::AutoScaling
AWS::CloudFormation
AWS::CloudFront
AWS::CloudTrail
AWS::CloudWatch
AWS::DynamoDB
AWS::EC2
AWS::ElastiCache
AWS::ElasticBeanstalk
AWS::ElasticLoadBalancing
AWS::IAM
AWS::KINESIS
AWS::Logs
AWS::OPSWORKS
AWS::RDS
AWS::REDSHIFT
AWS::Route53
AWS::S3
AWS::SDB
AWS::SNS
AWS::SQS

OS::Neutron::Firewall
OS::Neutron::FirewallPolicy
OS::Neutron::FirewallRule
OS::Neutron::FloatingIP
OS::Neutron::FloatingIPAssociation
OS::Neutron::HealthMonitor
OS::Neutron::Pool
OS::Neutron::LoadBalancer
OS::Neutron::Net
OS::Neutron::PoolMember
OS::Neutron::Port
OS::Neutron::SecurityGroup
OS::Nova::FloatingIP
OS::Nova::FloatingIPAssociation
OS::Nova::KeyPair
OS::Nova::Server

Todo:

Add additional validity checks
Add missing AWS resource types:
- AWS::CloudFormation::CustomResource

Duplicating a single instance sample would look like this

… code::

# Converted from EC2InstanceSample.template located at:
# http://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/aws-cloudformation-templates/

from troposphere import Base64, FindInMap, GetAtt
from troposphere import Parameter, Output, Ref, Template
import troposphere.ec2 as ec2


template = Template()

keyname_param = template.add_parameter(Parameter(
    "KeyName",
    Description="Name of an existing EC2 KeyPair to enable SSH "
                "access to the instance",
    Type="String",
))

template.add_mapping('RegionMap', {
    "us-east-1":      {"AMI": "ami-7f418316"},
    "us-west-1":      {"AMI": "ami-951945d0"},
    "us-west-2":      {"AMI": "ami-16fd7026"},
    "eu-west-1":      {"AMI": "ami-24506250"},
    "sa-east-1":      {"AMI": "ami-3e3be423"},
    "ap-southeast-1": {"AMI": "ami-74dda626"},
    "ap-northeast-1": {"AMI": "ami-dcfa4edd"}
})

ec2_instance = template.add_resource(ec2.Instance(
    "Ec2Instance",
    ImageId=FindInMap("RegionMap", Ref("AWS::Region"), "AMI"),
    InstanceType="t1.micro",
    KeyName=Ref(keyname_param),
    SecurityGroups=["default"],
    UserData=Base64("80")
))

template.add_output([
    Output(
        "InstanceId",
        Description="InstanceId of the newly created EC2 instance",
        Value=Ref(ec2_instance),
    ),
    Output(
        "AZ",
        Description="Availability Zone of the newly created EC2 instance",
        Value=GetAtt(ec2_instance, "AvailabilityZone"),
    ),
    Output(
        "PublicIP",
        Description="Public IP address of the newly created EC2 instance",
        Value=GetAtt(ec2_instance, "PublicIp"),
    ),
    Output(
        "PrivateIP",
        Description="Private IP address of the newly created EC2 instance",
        Value=GetAtt(ec2_instance, "PrivateIp"),
    ),
    Output(
        "PublicDNS",
        Description="Public DNSName of the newly created EC2 instance",
        Value=GetAtt(ec2_instance, "PublicDnsName"),
    ),
    Output(
        "PrivateDNS",
        Description="Private DNSName of the newly created EC2 instance",
        Value=GetAtt(ec2_instance, "PrivateDnsName"),
    ),
])

print(template.to_json())

Community

We have a google group, cloudtools-dev_, where you can ask questions and engage with the troposphere community. Issues & pull requests are always welcome!

… _AWS CloudFormation: http://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation … _OpenStack resources: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/heat/template_guide/openstack.html … _cloudtools-dev: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/cloudtools-dev