A Cloudformation template for spinning up a bastion host to use with Qubole clusters in an AWS private subnet

qubole-bastion-host-cf.template

{
  "AWSTemplateFormatVersion" : "2012-10-17",

  "Description" : "Launch EC2 Instance as a bastion host for Qubole. http://docs.qubole.com/en/latest/user-guide/clusters/clusters-in-vpcs.html.",

  "Parameters" : {

    "AccountName" : {
      "Description" : "For tagging purposes - example : BI Sales Department",
      "Type" : "String"
    },
    "InstanceName" : {
      "Description" : "The Qubole account name or whatever you want to name the instance (Value will be prepended with qubole-bastion-host-(instanceNamewillgohere)",
      "Type" : "String"
    }
  },

  "Resources" : {
    "EC2Instance" : {
      "Type" : "AWS::EC2::Instance",
      "Properties" : {
        "InstanceType" : "t2.large",
        "KeyName" : "keypairname",
        "ImageId" : "ami-2cc63b41",
        "AvailabilityZone" : "us-east-1b",
        "NetworkInterfaces": [ {
          "AssociatePublicIpAddress": "true",
          "SubnetId" : "subnet-000000",
          "DeviceIndex": "0",
          "GroupSet" : [ "sg-00000" ]
        }],
        "Tags": [
                  {"Key": "Name", "Value": {"Fn::Join": [ "", [ "qubole-bastion-host-", { "Ref": "InstanceName" } ] ]}},
                  {"Key": "Project", "Value": {"Ref": "AccountName"}},
                  {"Key": "Environment", "Value": "prod"},
                  {"Key": "Platform", "Value": "Data Services"},
                  {"Key": "Owner", "Value": "[email protected]"}
                ],
      }
    }
  },

  "Outputs" : {
    "InstanceId" : {
      "Description" : "InstanceId of the newly created EC2 instance",
      "Value" : { "Ref" : "EC2Instance" }
    },
    "PrivateIP" : {
      "Description" : "Private IP address of the newly created EC2 instance",
      "Value" : { "Fn::GetAtt" : [ "EC2Instance", "PrivateIp" ] }
    },
    "PublicIP" : {
      "Description" : "Public IP address of the newly created EC2 instance",
      "Value" : { "Fn::GetAtt" : [ "EC2Instance", "PublicIp" ] }
    }
  }
}