How to create cloudformation stack from existing resources programmatically in .net?

Question

I want to create a cloud formation stack from existing resources programmatically in .net. I want to launch my application in that stack in purely automate process. Please help me out...

Answer 1

AWS offers a tool called CloudFormer that can be used to create a CloudFormation template from an existing stack. This tool runs on a t1.micro instance, can be started via a CloudFormation template and provides an endpoint that you can use to interact with it (if you load that endpoint in the browser you get a nice UI, but you could also interact with that endpoint from your own code if you mimic their UI).

You can read more about CloudFormer on:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/cfn-using-cloudformer.html

and

http://aws.amazon.com/developertools/6460180344805680

If you're only looking to create the CloudFormation template once from your existing resources, then you won't really need to interact with the CloudFormer tool from your code as you can just use the UI to get your initial template. Once you have the CloudFormation template, you can re-create, update or destroy the stack programmatically trough the CloudFormation .net API:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdkfornet/latest/apidocs/html/T_Amazon_CloudFormation_AmazonCloudFormationClient.htm