CloudFormation Boto3 Shim Thing

A CloudFormation template that allows you to use the latest basic boto3 methods to create AWS resources.

Use cases

Sometimes when new resources are added to Amazon they don't ship with CloudFormation support or sometimes you need to create resources in another region (such as ACM certs in us-east-1).

CustomResource Example

Resources:
    ResourceName: # in this example we will create an SNS topic without using CloudFormation prematives
        Type: Custom::CFShim # Required by AWS
        DependsOn: [ShimLambda] # Ensure that the Shim is loaded first
        Properties:
            ServiceToken: !GetAtt ShimLambda.Arn # Pointer to the shim
            Service: "sns" # The name of the boto3 client class http://boto3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/services/index.html
            Create: "create_topic" # the method name that you want to call on create eg http://boto3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/services/sns.html#SNS.Client.create_topic
            PhysicalResourceId: "TopicArn" #this is the variable from the boto3 method response that sets the physicalresourceid - you can use this as parameters in update and delete stack by using "$PhysicalResourceId$"
            Delete: "delete_topic" # the method name that you want to call on delete
            Update: "set_topic_attributes" # the method name that you want to call on update
            CreateData:  #the data that will be fed to the boto3 method
                Name: "TestTopicNameTest" 
            DeleteData: #the data that will be fed to the boto3 method
                TopicArn: "$PhysicalResourceId$"
            UpdateData: #the data that will be fed to the boto3 method
                TopicArn: "$PhysicalResourceId$"
                AttributeName: "DisplayName"
                AttributeValue: "TestUpdate4"

Usage

1. Take from example.yml the ShimLambda resource. Also create a role for that lambda to use
2. Define your resources using the examples from the bottom (or above) of example.yml config