Hi Sreekanth
I don't understand - there is a tool called CloudFormer, and you want
something in Ansible that does the same thing?

Dick

On 24 July 2017 at 22:57, Sreekanth Kannan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Dick
>
> Thanks for your response.  Looks like you are referring to CloudFormation,
> but what I was asking is about a tool within CloudFormation which helps you
> to generate a template capturing all the resources from your existing
> infrastructure in JSON format, it is CloudFormer.
>
> Later this template can be used to create a CloudFormation stack and spin up
> a new environment, kind of a replica but with some tweaking to suit the
> target landscape.
>
> To keep it simple, I just want to know if Ansible has the capability to
> capture an existing Dev environment and help us automate the deployment of a
> similar QA environment, with some parameter and configuration changes.
>
> Appreciate your response.
>
> thanks
> Sreekanth
>
> On Monday, July 24, 2017 at 4:44:05 PM UTC-4, Dick Visser wrote:
>>
>> There is:
>> http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/cloudformation_module.html
>>
>> On 24 July 2017 at 21:17, Sreekanth Kannan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Hello
>> >
>> > I have a need and I am trying to find if there is a module in Ansible
>> > that
>> > could help me with it. The scenario and the need is:
>> >
>> >      - We have AWS Infrastructure setup and Applications built and
>> > running
>> > in AWS.
>> >      - We have three accounts for Dev, QA and PRD.
>> >      - Now we are required to leverage automation tools to build our QA
>> > landscape from what is already built in the Dev landscape. In other
>> > words,
>> > we need to copy Dev resources to QA and parameterize QA Apps and
>> > Configuration.
>> >
>> >      - CloudFormer (a tool in CloudFormation) very nicely generates a
>> > template of the existing infrastructure in the Dev landscape, outputs
>> > into a
>> > JSON template and enables you to build a cloudformation stack to build
>> > QA
>> > resources.
>> >
>> > My question is - Is there a parallel module or tool in Ansible that
>> > could do
>> > a similar job, to build a new environment from an existing one ?
>> >
>> > Appreciate your responses.
>> >
>> > thanks
>> > Sreekanth
>> >
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