Pulumi Cloud Config Initialization

This helper library helps to create AWS EC2 instances that leverage CloudFormation initialization data. This is often an AWS::CloudFormation::Init resource, which contains a map of packages, commands, services, and more.

This is very much a work in progress, so only a subset of the commands are available. Pull requests are welcome and, I suspect, we will be rounding this library out over time as we encounter more CloudFormation conversions.

Example

Please refer to the AWS Ruby on Rails example for a concrete example of this in action.

The following is an extracted snippet from this example, that creates a Ruby on Rails and MySQL EC2 VM:

import * as aws from "@pulumi/aws";
import * as ami from "./ami";
import * as config from "./config";
import { createUserData, renderConfigFile } from "pcloudinit";

const webSg = new aws.ec2.SecurityGroup("webServerSecurityGroup", {
    description: "Enable HTTP and SSH access",
    egress: [
        { protocol: "-1", fromPort: 0, toPort: 0, cidrBlocks: [ "0.0.0.0/0" ] },
    ],
    ingress: [
        { protocol: "tcp", fromPort: 22, toPort: 22, cidrBlocks: [ "0.0.0.0/0" ] },
        { protocol: "tcp", fromPort: 80, toPort: 80, cidrBlocks: [ config.sshLocation ] },
    ],
});

const webServer = new aws.ec2.Instance("webServer", {
    ami: ami.get(aws.config.requireRegion(), config.instanceType),
    instanceType: config.instanceType,
    securityGroups: [ webSg.name ],
    keyName: config.keyName,
    userData: createUserData(
        [ "install_ruby_2_3_1", "install_mysql", "configure_mysql", "install_application" ],
        {
            "install_ruby_2_3_1": {
                files: {
                    "/tmp/install_ruby": {
                        content: renderConfigFile("./files/install_ruby", config),
                        mode: "000500",
                        owner: "root",
                        group: "root",
                    },
                },
                commands: {
                    "01_install_ruby": {
                        command: "/tmp/install_ruby > /var/log/install_ruby.log",
                    },
                },
            },
            "install_mysql": {
                packages: {
                    yum: [ "mysql", "mysql-server", "mysql-devel", "mysql-libs" ],
                },
                files: {
                    "/tmp/setup.mysql": {
                        content: renderConfigFile("./files/setup.mysql", config),
                        mode: "000400",
                        owner: "root",
                        group: "root",
                    },
                },
                services: {
                    "sysvinit": {
                        "mysqld": { enabled: true, ensureRunning: true },
                    },
                },
            },
            "configure_mysql": {
                commands: {
                    "01_set_mysql_root_password": {
                        command: `mysqladmin -u root password '${config.dbRootPassword}'`,
                        test: `$(mysql ${config.dbName} -u root --password='${config.dbRootPassword}' >/dev/null 2>&1 </dev/null); (( $? != 0 ))`,
                    },
                    "02_create_database": {
                        command: `mysql -u root --password='${config.dbRootPassword}' < /tmp/setup.mysql`,
                        test: `$(mysql ${config.dbName} -u root --password='${config.dbRootPassword}' >/dev/null 2>&1 </dev/null); (( $? != 0 ))`,
                    },
                    "03_cleanup": {
                        command: "rm /tmp/setup.mysql",
                    },
                },
            },
            "install_application": {
                files: {
                    "/tmp/database.yml": {
                        content: renderConfigFile("./files/database.yml", config),
                        mode: "000400",
                        owner: "root",
                        group: "root",
                    },
                    "/tmp/install_application": {
                        content: renderConfigFile("./files/install_application", config),
                        mode: "000500",
                        owner: "root",
                        group: "root",
                    },
                    "/home/ec2-user/start_application": {
                        content: renderConfigFile("./files/start_application", config),
                        mode: "000500",
                        owner: "root",
                        group: "root",
                    },
                },
                commands: {
                    "01_install_application": {
                        command: "/tmp/install_application > /var/log/install_application.log",
                    },
                    "02_configure_reboot": {
                        command: "echo /home/ec2-user/start_application >> /etc/rc.local",
                    },
                    "03_start_application": {
                        command: "/home/ec2-user/start_application > var/log/start_application.log",
                    },
                    /*
                    "04_cleanup": {
                        command: "rm /tmp/install_application",
                    },
                     */
                },
            },
        },
    ),
});

// Export the VM IP in case we want to SSH.
export let vmIP = webServer.publicIp;

// Export the URL for our newly created Rails application.
export let websiteURL = webServer.publicDns.apply(url => `http://${url}/notes`);