Cloud Deployment Automation

Automates the deployment and provisioning of the AWS CloudFormation services using Service Catalog or Service Portal.

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Spoke dependencies

You must activate and set up the AWS CloudFormation spoke to use this application.

Catalog items and flows

The Cloud Deployment Automation provides catalog items and flows to automate tasks. When a catalog item is submitted, the associated flow is triggered and the task is performed. To customize a flow, create a copy of it in a new application scope. Available catalog items and flows include:

Catalog Item or Flow	Description
Create Stack	Creates a stack in AWS CloudFormation account.
Create and Execute Change Set	Creates and executes a change set in AWS CloudFormation account.
Create Stack Set	Creates a stack set in AWS CloudFormation account.
Delete Stack	Deletes a stack in AWS CloudFormation account.
Delete Stack Set	Deletes a stack set in AWS CloudFormation account.
Update Stack Set	Updates a stack set in AWS CloudFormation account.

Subflows

The Cloud Deployment Automation provides subflows to demonstrate automating tasks. To customize a subflow, create a copy of it in a new application scope. Available subflows include:

Subflow	Description
Create Event	Creates an event if automation fails.
Create Incident	Creates an incident if automation fails.
Dynamic Flow Template	Subflow template to create event and incident.
Fetch Approvers and Assignees	Retrieves details of approvers (groups and users), assignee, and assignment group for the requested item, catalog task, and incident from the decision tables.
Get Stack Set Operation Result Status Reason	Retrieves the AWS CloudFormation stack set operation result status reason.
Get Stack Set Operation Status	Retrieves the operation status of the AWS CloudFormation stack set.
Get Stack Status	Retrieves the status of the AWS CloudFormation stack.

Actions

The Cloud Deployment Automation provides an action, Change Array.Object Internal Names to change an array of objects to another array of objects based upon the key value pair.

Decision tables

The Cloud Deployment Automation application uses decision tables to save the required information. The decision tables include:

Decision table	Description
CDA Requested Item User Approval Policy	Policy used to assign a requested item to the relevant user for approval.
CDA Requested Item Group Approval Policy	Policy used to assign a requested item to the relevant group for approval.
CDA Incident User Assignment Policy	Policy used to assign an incident to the relevant user.
CDA Incident Group Assignment Policy	Policy used to assign an incident to the relevant group.
CDA Failed Automation Flow Policy	Policy used to choose between creating an incident or an event when an automation failure occurs.
CDA Catalog Task User Assignment Policy	Policy used to assign a catalog task to the relevant user.
CDA Catalog Task Group Assignment Policy	Policy used to assign a catalog task to the relevant group.

User roles

The Cloud Deployment Automation application provides the sn_cloud_dpmt_atmn.cloud_deployment_automation_user role. Users with this role can view cloud deployment automation catalog items.

Note:

User must have the sn_cloud_dpmt_atmn.cloud_deployment_automation_user _mgmt_user, ITIL, and Catalog Admin roles to create and submit catalog items.

System properties

The Cloud Deployment Automation application provides system properties that you can configure as per your requirement.

System property	Description
sn_cloud_dpmt_atmn.exclude_aws_regions	List of additional regions that should be excluded from those mentioned in the CloudDeploymentAutomationUtils script include.
sn_cloud_dpmt_atmn.include_aws_regions	List of additional regions that should be included to those mentioned in CloudDeploymentAutomationUtils script include.
sn_cloud_dpmt_atmn.flow_loop_limit	Number of hours that flows should run in loop before they exit.

Navigate to System Properties > All Properties to configure the values of these properties.

• Set up Cloud Deployment Automation
  Set up the Cloud Deployment Automation application by configuring the Service Portal page to use the default catalog items.