Aviatrix - AWS Marketplace CloudFormation templates for Aviatrix Controller

Description

This CloudFormation script will create the following:

• One Aviatrix Controller EC2 Instance (named AviatrixController).
• One Aviatrix Security Group (named AviatrixSecurityGroup).
• One Aviatrix Role for EC2 (named aviatrix-role-ec2) with corresponding role policy (named aviatrix-assume-role-policy). Click here for this policy details
• One Aviatrix Role for Apps (named aviatrix-role-app) with corresponding role policy (named aviatrix-app-policy) Click here for this policy details

Pre-requisites:

• An existing VPC.
• A public subnet on that VPC.
• An internet gateway attached to the VPC.
• KeyPair.
• In order to use the Aviatrix Controller first you need to accept the terms and subscribe to it in the AWS Marketplace. Click here

Note: this script does NOT check that the subnet selected is on the same VPC selected, you need to make sure you are selecting the right combination.

Note 2: this script does NOT check that an Internet Gateway is created and attached to the VPC. If this is missing there will be no way to access the Aviatrix Controller.

Step by step Procedure:

1. Access your AWS Console.

2. Under Services -> Management Tools.

 Select CloudFormation.

OR

 Search for CloudFormation.

3. At the CloudFormation page, Select Create stack.

4. On the next screen, Select "Upload a template to Amazon S3".

  Choose file -> AVIATRIX_CONTROLLER_CLOUDFORMATION.template

Note: the Aviatrix Controller CloudFormation template(s) can be found/downloaded from this project.

5. Click next.

6. On the Stack Name textbox, Name your Stack -> Something like AviatrixController

7. Select the following parameters:

• VPC
• Subnet
• KeyPair Name
• Controller Size selection
• Aviatrix IAMRole (select New if this is the first time you are launching Aviatrix Controller, i.e., no aviatrix-role-ec2 IAM role and associated security policies have been created.)

8. Click next

9. Especify your options/tags/permissions as per your policies, when in doubt just click next.

10. On the review page, scroll to the bottom and check the button that reads: I acknowledge that AWS CloudFormation might create IAM resources with custom names.

11. Click on Create.

12. Verify that the instance, roles and policies has been created and associated accordingly.

13. Enjoy! You are welcomed!

Caveats:

• There is no current automated way to check if the VPC/Subnet/IGW are all in place and correctly configured. Manual creation of those elements is required.