{"id":14487,"date":"2014-07-01T14:39:49","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T09:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tothenew.life\/blog\/?p=14487"},"modified":"2026-11-06T12:00:33","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T06:30:33","slug":"install-lamp-stack-using-cloud-formation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tothenew.life\/blog\/install-lamp-stack-using-cloud-formation\/","title":{"rendered":"Install LAMP Stack Using Cloud Formation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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AWS\u00a0Cloud formation\u00a0\u00a0is a service used to create and manage a collection of other AWS services. This service is used to automate the infrastructure setup and deployment.<\/p>\n

In this article, we will be launching a LAMP Stack Instance using\u00a0Cloud Formation. For this we are using\u00a0Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS (PV)\u00a0– ami-9a7724c8 (64-bit)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Steps to Launch:<\/h3>\n

 <\/p>\n

1) Create a .json file
\n2) Open AWS Console
\n3) Browse to Cloudformation, CREATE STACK and upload the .json file<\/p><\/div>\n

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Create a .json file<\/h3>\n

 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

[js]
\n{
\n“Resources” :
\n{
\n“WebServer”:{“Type”: “AWS::EC2::Instance”,
\n“Properties”:{
\n“ImageId” : “ami-9a7724c8”,
\n“KeyName” : “demo”,
\n“InstanceType”:”t1.micro”,
\n“SecurityGroups” : [ “demo” ],
\n“UserData” : {“Fn::Base64” : {“Fn::Join” : [“”, [
\n“#!\/bin\/bash\\n”,
\n“# Launching Instance”,
\n“apt-get -y install apache2 \\n”,
\n“apt-get -y install mysql \\n”,
\n“apt-get -y install mysql-server \\n”,
\n“apt-get -y install php php5-mysql \\n”
\n] ] } }
\n}
\n}
\n},
\n“Outputs”:{
\n“WebsiteURL” : {
\n“Value” : { “Fn::Join” : [“”, [“http:\/\/”, { “Fn::GetAtt” : [ “WebServer”, “PublicDnsName” ]}]] },
\n“Description” : “URL for newly created LAMP stack”
\n}
\n}
\n}
\n[\/js]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

[js] **Note: Keyname and Security groups must exists on your account [\/js]<\/p>\n

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 <\/p>\n

Open AWS Console > Browse to Cloud Formation >Create Stack<\/h3>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"cloudformation2\"<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

<\/div>\n
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Once you click Create Stack<\/strong> button, it will ask for the Stack Name<\/strong> and the .<\/strong>json<\/strong> file.<\/p>\n

\"cloudformation3\"<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

<\/div>\n
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Upload the .<\/strong>json<\/strong> file and Follow the wizard. The next wizard ask you to enter the Key Value name for the Instance:<\/p>\n

\"cloudfomration4\"<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Click\u00a0the Next Button<\/span> and the launch the stack. Once you launch the stack, you will get the following screen with launching process events.<\/p>\n

If everything goes well, you will get the the CREATE_COMPLETE<\/span> message in the Status Tab. If any error occurs then a ROLLBACK<\/span> event is invoked which will delete the stack.<\/p>\n

Since we got the CREATE_COMPLETE<\/span> message with a output parameter that we have defined in our json which returns the public DNS name of the Instance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

<\/div>\n
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By Clicking on the output\u00a0URL, it takes us to the apache default page: <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

<\/div>\n
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We can check the Console to see our running Instances:<\/p>\n

\"cloudformation10\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We can see the Public DNS<\/span> is same.<\/p>\n

To Terminate this Instance we can delete the stack from the Cloud Formation Wizard. Deleting the stack will terminate all the instances launched by that stack.<\/p>\n

\"cloudformation11\"<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AWS\u00a0Cloud formation\u00a0\u00a0is a service used to create and manage a collection of other AWS services. This service is used to automate the infrastructure setup and deployment. In this article, we will be launching a LAMP Stack Instance using\u00a0Cloud Formation. For this we are using\u00a0Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS (PV)\u00a0– ami-9a7724c8 (64-bit) Steps to Launch:   1) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":26,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1174],"tags":[1464,49],"class_list":["post-14487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aws-2","tag-cloud-formation","tag-json"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t