如何为已部署的 AWS 资源获取云形成模板

Question

If I create a resource from AWS GUI , lets say a S3 bucket or an AWS glue Job , is it possible to use AWS CLI to get the CF template for such resources. Is there any way to reverse engineer the CF templates ?

Thanks

Answer 1

There is AWS provided CloudFormer . But it is not maintained and in beta for years. Thus its not really useful these days, but you can try it for simple things if you want nevertheless.

There is also a new tool, called Former2 which is up to date and generally used. But it is not developed by AWS, instead its an opensource third party solution to this problem. Since its open sourced, you can run it yourself as well.

Answer 2

Unfortunately there is no fool-proof method, the closest functionality that exists is a no longer maintained tool by AWS which is CloudFormer .

AWS has added support to import existing resources into a CloudFormation stack, however this requires that you have created the template first.