particles-enhanced-snapshots

Summary

Condensation particles that create a CloudFormation project for Enhanced Snapshots.

Condensation allows templates and assets to be deployed together, to any S3 bucket. The template will always reference the assets that it was deployed with.

Use

Quick Start

Use the Launch Stack links in the Packaged Project section of this README.

Build

Must have node.js 0.12 or later.

1. Clone the repository
2. Create a local.js file in config with buckets that you own
3. Add AWS credentials to your environment. Either by IAM Profile, Envionment Variables or AWS Properties file.
4. Build:

       > git clone https://github.com/SungardAS/particles-enhanced-snapshots
       
       > cd particles-enhanced-snapshots
       
       > npm install
       
       > ./node_modules/.bin/gulp condensation:build
   

5. Deploy:

       > ./node_modules/.bin/gulp condensation:deploy
       
   

Packaged Project

Using condensation the CloudFormation Template and Enhanced Snapshots assets have been deployed to thie following AWS regions.

The Simple Stack uses the default VPC and has minimal input parameters. While KeyName is the only paramerter that must be changed from it's default value, it is recommended that SourceCIDR be changed from 0.0.0.0/0 to a more restrictive range.

The VPC Stack adds the ability to configure the VPC and Subnet that the instance will be launched in. Both are required to be set for the stack to run.

region	Simple Stack	VPC Stack
us-east-1
us-west-1
us-west-2
eu-west-1