Community Articles

Find and share helpful community-sourced technical articles.
Announcements
Celebrating as our community reaches 100,000 members! Thank you!
Labels (1)
avatar

Overview

There are many useful articles as well official Cloudbreak documentation covers everything in great depth. This short article walks you through how to deploy the Cloudbreak instance within the existing VPC and Subnet using the AWS Quickstart deployment.

Cloudbreak deployment options

The cloudbreak deployment options are explained in detail here.

If you notice the AWS specific Networking options, the Quickstart by default creates the new VPC and for the custom VPC the production install is recommended.

In case you are doing poc and quickly want to try the Quickstart option but wanted to use the existing VPC, you can do that by enhancing the CloudFormation template which is described in next session.

CloudFormation template changes

When you launch the CloudFormation template for AWS Quickstart by default it selects the existing CloudFormation template https://s3.amazonaws.com/cbd-quickstart/cbd-quickstart-2.7.0.template.

Instead of using the default template use the following template.

https://github.com/mpandithw/cloudbreak/blob/master/CloudFormation_aws_QuickStart-Template

Mainly following changes have been made to the original template.

Added the following two parameters VpcId and SubnetId.

"VpcId": {

"Type": "AWS::EC2::VPC::Id",

"Description": "VpcId of your existing Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)"

},"SubnetId": {

"Type": "AWS::EC2::Subnet::Id",

"Description": "SubnetId of your existing Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)"

}

I am not walking through all the detail steps which are already covered in cloudbreak documentation.

Only modification to original process is to select your own CloudFormation template which is described above.

95452-selectnewtemplate.png

You will get the options with drop down list of existing VPC and subnet.

95453-existingvpcoption.png

Complete the rest of process as explained in the cloudbreak documentation.

Benefits

You can use the AWS Quickstart deployment of cloudbreak within your existing VPC/Subnet.

Document References

aws CloudFormation user guide

4,131 Views
Comments

Hi Milind,

Use of Existing VPC thing is not working in our case with the new template.

With the new parameter in template it is allowing for selecting the existing VPC, but while creating the cloud break instance it is still creating the new VPC and launching the cloudbreak EC2 instance in the new VPC and not using the existing vpc subnet.

Fixing the same will be helpful for us. I'm not expert in cloud formation template but looks like you have added the new parameters, but the previous existing parameter in template still overwriting them.

Ananya, script was updated long back to take care of this. You should able to use existing vpc and subnet. Only issue you might face if internet gateway is already attached to vpc as script prefers to add new internet gateway.