amazon web services - How to create a template from existing resources?

Question

I've heard about "CloudFormer" tool, to automatically generate a base template from existing resources on the cloud. https://medium.com/@ridmag/how-to-use-aws-cloudformer-e8d848cfafe1

I can't find this tool in aws! Perhaps this is a old tool that has been removed?

I've heard about another not-Amazon product named "terraform.io" as well. Can Terraform do this? Can it produce a template (in its proprietary format and/or in the cloudformation format) as well?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65625800/how-to-create-a-template-from-existing-resources

Answer 1

CoudFormer is no longer maintained and deprecated by AWS. Instead, former2 can be used which is open sourced, developed by AWS Hero and used by AWS clients as explained in AWS blog:

• How DNAnexus used the open source Former2 project to create infrastructure as code templates for their disaster recovery pipeline