Railo CloudFormation example with nginx

railo_cloudformation.json

{
  "AWSTemplateFormatVersion" : "2010-09-09",
  
  "Description" : "AWS CloudFormation template to deploy railo4/tomcat7/nginx.",
  
  "Parameters" : {
      
    "KeyName" : {
      "Default" : "bacfug",
      "Description" : "Name of an existing EC2 KeyPair to enable SSH access to the instances",
      "Type" : "String"
    },    
    
    "InstanceType" : {
      "Description" : "EC2 instance type",
      "Type" : "String",
      "Default" : "t1.micro",
      "AllowedValues" : [ "t1.micro","m1.small","m1.medium","m1.large","m1.xlarge","m2.xlarge","m2.2xlarge","m2.4xlarge","c1.medium","c1.xlarge","cc1.4xlarge","cc2.8xlarge","cg1.4xlarge"],
      "ConstraintDescription" : "must be a valid EC2 instance type."
    }
  },
  
  "Mappings" : {
    "AWSInstanceType2Arch" : {
      "t1.micro"    : { "Arch" : "64" },
      "m1.small"    : { "Arch" : "64" },
      "m1.medium"   : { "Arch" : "64" },
      "m1.large"    : { "Arch" : "64" },
      "m1.xlarge"   : { "Arch" : "64" },
      "m2.xlarge"   : { "Arch" : "64" },
      "m2.2xlarge"  : { "Arch" : "64" },
      "m2.4xlarge"  : { "Arch" : "64" },
      "c1.medium"   : { "Arch" : "64" },
      "c1.xlarge"   : { "Arch" : "64" },
      "cc1.4xlarge" : { "Arch" : "64HVM" },
      "cc2.8xlarge" : { "Arch" : "64HVM" },
      "cg1.4xlarge" : { "Arch" : "64HVM" }
    },

    "AWSRegionArch2AMI" : {
      "us-east-1"      : { "32" : "ami-31814f58", "64" : "ami-1b814f72", "64HVM" : "ami-0da96764" },
      "us-west-2"      : { "32" : "ami-38fe7308", "64" : "ami-96ef63a6", "64HVM" : "NOT_YET_SUPPORTED" },
      "us-west-1"      : { "32" : "ami-11d68a54", "64" : "ami-1bd68a5e", "64HVM" : "NOT_YET_SUPPORTED" },
      "eu-west-1"      : { "32" : "ami-973b06e3", "64" : "ami-953b06e1", "64HVM" : "NOT_YET_SUPPORTED" },
      "ap-southeast-1" : { "32" : "ami-b4b0cae6", "64" : "ami-beb0caec", "64HVM" : "NOT_YET_SUPPORTED" },
      "ap-northeast-1" : { "32" : "ami-0644f007", "64" : "ami-0a44f00b", "64HVM" : "NOT_YET_SUPPORTED" },
      "sa-east-1"      : { "32" : "ami-3e3be423", "64" : "ami-3c3be421", "64HVM" : "NOT_YET_SUPPORTED" }
    }
  },
    
  "Resources" : {     
    "CfnUser" : {
      "Type" : "AWS::IAM::User",
      "Properties" : {
        "Path": "/",
        "Policies": [{
          "PolicyName": "root",
          "PolicyDocument": { "Statement":[{
            "Effect":"Allow",
            "Action"   : [
              "cloudformation:DescribeStackResource",
              "s3:GetObject"
            ],
            "Resource":"*"
          }]}
        }]
      }
    },

    "CfnKeys" : {
      "Type" : "AWS::IAM::AccessKey",
      "Properties" : {
        "UserName" : {"Ref": "CfnUser"}
      }
    },

    "HostKeys" : {
      "Type" : "AWS::IAM::AccessKey",
      "Properties" : {
        "UserName" : {"Ref": "CfnUser"}
      }
    },

    "WebServer": {  
      "Type": "AWS::EC2::Instance",
      "Metadata" : {
        "AWS::CloudFormation::Init" : {
          "config" : {
            "packages" : {
              "apt" : {
                "nginx"        : [],
                "tomcat6"  : [],
                "git" : []
              }
            },

            "sources": {
            "/tmp/railo/": "http://www.getrailo.org/down.cfm?item=/railo/remote/download/4.0.0.013/custom/all/railo-4.0.0.013-jars.tar.gz"
            ,"/tmp/tomcat_conf/": "https://gist.github.com/gists/3745673/download"
            },

            "files" : {
              "/tmp/index.cfm" : {
                "content" : { "Fn::Join" : ["", [
                  "<cfdump var='#server#'>\n"
                ]]},
                "mode"   : "000755",
                "owner"  : "root",
                "group"  : "root"
              },
              "/tmp/nginx/default" : {
                "content" : { "Fn::Join" : ["", [
                  "server {\n",
                    "# Main Railo proxy handler\n",
                     "location ~ \\.(cfm|cfml|cfc|jsp|cfr)(.*)$ {\n",
                      "proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;\n",
                      "proxy_redirect off;\n",
                      "proxy_set_header Host $host;\n",
                      "proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host;\n",
                      "proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Server $host;\n",
                      "proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;\n",
                      "proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;\n",
                     "}\n",
                            "root /usr/share/nginx/www;\n",
                            "index index.cfm index.html index.htm;\n",
                    "}\n"
                ]]},
                "mode"   : "000755",
                "owner"  : "root",
                "group"  : "root"
              }
            }

            ,"services" : {
              "sysvinit" : {  
                "nginx"    : { "enabled" : "true", "ensureRunning" : "true" },
                "tomcat6"    : { "enabled" : "true", "ensureRunning" : "true" }
              }
            }
            
          }
        }
      },
      "Properties": {
        "ImageId" : { "Fn::FindInMap" : [ "AWSRegionArch2AMI", { "Ref" : "AWS::Region" },
                          { "Fn::FindInMap" : [ "AWSInstanceType2Arch", { "Ref" : "InstanceType" }, "Arch" ] } ] },
        "InstanceType"   : { "Ref" : "InstanceType" },
        "SecurityGroups" : [ {"Ref" : "WebServerSecurityGroup"} ],
        "KeyName"        : { "Ref" : "KeyName" },
        "UserData"       : { "Fn::Base64" : { "Fn::Join" : ["", [
          "#!/bin/bash\n",
          "apt-get update\n",

          "# Helper function\n",
          "function error_exit\n",
          "{\n",
          "  cfn-signal -e 1 -r \"$1\" '", { "Ref" : "WaitHandle" }, "'\n",
          "  exit 1\n",
          "}\n",

          "apt-get -y install python-setuptools\n",
          "easy_install https://s3.amazonaws.com/cloudformation-examples/aws-cfn-bootstrap-1.0-6.tar.gz\n",

          "cfn-init -v -s ", { "Ref" : "AWS::StackName" }, " -r WebServer ",
          "    --access-key ",  { "Ref" : "HostKeys" },
          "    --secret-key ", {"Fn::GetAtt": ["HostKeys", "SecretAccessKey"]},
          "    --region ", { "Ref" : "AWS::Region" }, " || error_exit 'Failed to run cfn-init'\n",

          "chown tomcat6 /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/ROOT\n",
          "chown tomcat6 /usr/share/tomcat6/lib\n",

          "cp /tmp/index.cfm /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/ROOT/index.cfm\n",

          "cp /tmp/railo/railo-4.0.0.013-jars/* /usr/share/tomcat6/lib/\n",

          "cp /tmp/tomcat_conf/gist3745673-f5ade74eed784f31aea0628b90ce3873e0a5103c/web.xml /var/lib/tomcat6/conf/web.xml\n",

          "cp /tmp/nginx/default /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default\n",

          "/etc/init.d/tomcat6 restart\n",
          "/etc/init.d/nginx restart\n",


          "# All is well so signal success\n",
          "cfn-signal -e 0 -r \"Railo setup complete\" '", { "Ref" : "WaitHandle" }, "'\n"

        ]]}}        
      }
    }

    ,"WaitHandle" : {
      "Type" : "AWS::CloudFormation::WaitConditionHandle"
    }

    ,"WaitCondition" : {
      "Type" : "AWS::CloudFormation::WaitCondition",
      "DependsOn" : "WebServer",
      "Properties" : {
        "Handle" : {"Ref" : "WaitHandle"},
        "Timeout" : "300"
      }
    },

    "WebServerSecurityGroup" : {
      "Type" : "AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup",
      "Properties" : {
        "GroupDescription" : "Enable HTTP access via port 80,8080, and SSH access",
        "SecurityGroupIngress" : [
          {"IpProtocol" : "tcp", "FromPort" : "80", "ToPort" : "80", "CidrIp" : "0.0.0.0/0"},
          {"IpProtocol" : "tcp", "FromPort" : "8080", "ToPort" : "8080", "CidrIp" : "0.0.0.0/0"},
          {"IpProtocol" : "tcp", "FromPort" : "22", "ToPort" : "22", "CidrIp" : "0.0.0.0/0"}
        ]
      }      
    }

  },
  
  "Outputs" : {
    "WebsiteURL" : {
      "Value" : { "Fn::Join" : ["", ["http://", { "Fn::GetAtt" : [ "WebServer", "PublicDnsName" ]}, ""]] },
      "Description" : "Railo Installation"
    }
  }
}

This is wonderful, thank you for sharing!

Your description says that this installs tomcat7, but the template only references tomcat6...

Nice! Thanks for sharing!

Has anyone gotten this to work with Cloudformation? I just tried it and could not get it to launch. I pretty new to the whole concept so im sure im missing something...

This is awesome! Same question about tomcat 7 vs tomcat 6 where in this template is that controlled? Is that based on the AMI used? Hopefully this will work...