Cloud-formation for WordPress

This repository contains AWS cloud formation template. This template could be used to bootstrap an ec2 instance with the LAMP stack serving a Wordpress blog.

Note: This template also creates a VPC and a public subnet. It launches the ec2 instance in the public subnet.

Parameters Used

DBRootPassword- Root password for MySQL database.

DBName- The WordPress database name.

DBPassword- The WordPress database admin account password.

DBUser- The WordPress database administrator account username.

InstanceType- WebServer EC2 instance type.

KeyName- Name of an existing EC2 KeyPair to enable SSH access to the instance.

SSHLocation- The CIDR range to which ssh port would be opened.

Usage

1. Clone this repository to your local workstation.
2. Log-in to your AWS Managemnt console and choose CloudFormation.
3. Select Create a stack and choose upload the template. You can upload ec2-vpc-wordpress.json file from the local repositoy.
4. Provide the required parameters and create the stack.
5. Check the wordpress blog by visiting to the link http://instance-ip-address/wordpress/

IDEs, Tools and References Used

• Atom 1.3.0
• CloudFormation Designer - A very handy in-browser tool provided by AWS in managament console.
• Github Desktop 3.0.9
• AWS Whitepapers and Sample templates
  • https://s3.amazonaws.com/cloudformation-examples/IntegratingAWSCloudFormationWithOpscodeChef.pdf
  • https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/cloudformation-templates-us-west-2/LAMP_Single_Instance.template

To-do list

Hosted-Chef/Chef-Solo integration with cloud-formation.

• Status- Resloving some weired cookbook dependencies for chef-solo.