Cloudformation helper scripts

  • How do we know if user data script ran successfully?
  • How do we make user data readable
  • Update user data without terminating an instance
  • What if the configuration is large?
    • wdym by large configuration

These are python scripts that come with amazon linux or can be installed with dnf or yum

cfn-init cfn-signal cfn-get-metadata cfn-hup