Aaron Kelly's Blog

Recreating all my resources using Cloudformation + CloudFormer

I want to define my entire cloud setup by using a Cloudformation template, but I already have a lot of configuration in-place and I don’t really know how to write the template file.

However, there is a tool called CloudFormer that will analyse your current cloud infrastructure and then output a template for you.

Do I really need this?

This template is probably going to benefit enterprises more, but I just want to do it because I have tender feelings towards the concepts of reproducability and immutability.

Will this template delete anything? Is it destructive? My S3 buckets!!

don’t know