Automated Deployment of an EC2 Instance with the Latest AWS Linux AMI
ACM.88 Automatically look up latest AWS Linux AMI and use it to Deploy an instance in a VPC with CloudFormation
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7 min readOct 22, 2022
Part of my series on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics. The Code.
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In the last post, I wrote about strategies to ensure your resources deploy properly in production by properly testing all affected code paths.
Now we’re going to write some code to obtain the most up-to-date Linux AMI and use it to deploy an EC2 instance with CloudFormation.
An SSH Key for our EC2 instance
We already spent a few posts considering ways to authenticate and log into an EC2 instance and for now, we will use an SSH key. You can follow along with how that key got created and stored in a Secrets Manager secret accessible to one user only starting here (there are multiple posts on the topic):
