Our experimental (and likely transient) cloudformation experiment.

Basically, all existing tooling out there to orchestrate CloudFormation is too limited or doesn't support complex scenarios. That forces us to go straight to the cloudformation template.

This is just a bunch of Python scripts that use troposphere to generate CloudFormation templates to get us in a situation to be able to work.

The conf.py file has some limited configuration options that you can specify (for stuff like name of the VPC and the /16 CIDR block prefix you want, as well as whether or not subnets are private or public).

The configuration file is optional unncessary as default settings are specified in config.py.

It's easiest to use virtualenv run this (so I don't pollute your environment).

virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.pip

# Run either of the next two commands
python generate.py -o infra.template # accept the default specified at the top of config.py
python generate.py -c conf.yml -o infra.template # specify a conf.yml file that overrides settings in config.py

This will generate an infra.template file that you can use for CloudFormation.