Heat CloudFormation Tools

There are several bootstrap methods for cloudformations:

1. Create image with application ready to go
2. Use cloud-init to run a startup script passed as userdata to the nova server create
3. Use the CloudFormation instance helper scripts

This package contains files required for choice #3.

cfn-init -

Reads the AWS::CloudFormation::Init for the instance resource, installs packages, and starts services

cfn-signal -

Waits for an application to be ready before continuing, ie: supporting the WaitCondition feature

cfn-hup -

Handle updates from the UpdateStack CloudFormation API call

• Free software: Apache license
• Source: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/heat-cfntools
• Bugs: http://bugs.launchpad.net/heat-cfntools

Related projects

• http://wiki.openstack.org/Heat