create-app¶

Description¶

Creates an app for a specified stack. For more information, see Creating Apps .

Required Permissions : To use this action, an IAM user must have a Manage permissions level for the stack, or an attached policy that explicitly grants permissions. For more information on user permissions, see Managing User Permissions .

Synopsis¶

  create-app
--stack-id <value>
[--shortname <value>]
--name <value>
[--description <value>]
[--data-sources <value>]
--type <value>
[--app-source <value>]
[--domains <value>]
[--enable-ssl | --no-enable-ssl]
[--ssl-configuration <value>]
[--attributes <value>]
[--environment <value>]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]

Options¶

--stack-id (string)

The stack ID.

--shortname (string)

The app’s short name.

--name (string)

The app name.

--description (string)

A description of the app.

--data-sources (list)

The app’s data source.

(structure)

Describes an app’s data source.

Type -> (string)

The data source’s type, AutoSelectOpsworksMysqlInstance , OpsworksMysqlInstance , RdsDbInstance , or None .

Arn -> (string)

The data source’s ARN.

DatabaseName -> (string)

The database name.

Shorthand Syntax:

Type=string,Arn=string,DatabaseName=string ...

JSON Syntax:

[
  {
    "Type": "string",
    "Arn": "string",
    "DatabaseName": "string"
  }
  ...
]

--type (string)

The app type. Each supported type is associated with a particular layer. For example, PHP applications are associated with a PHP layer. AWS OpsWorks Stacks deploys an application to those instances that are members of the corresponding layer. If your app isn’t one of the standard types, or you prefer to implement your own Deploy recipes, specify other .

Possible values:

aws-flow-ruby

java

rails

php

nodejs

static

other

--app-source (structure)

A Source object that specifies the app repository.

Type -> (string)

The repository type.

Url -> (string)

The source URL. The following is an example of an Amazon S3 source URL: https://s3.amazonaws.com/opsworks-demo-bucket/opsworks_cookbook_demo.tar.gz .

Username -> (string)

This parameter depends on the repository type.

For Amazon S3 bundles, set Username to the appropriate IAM access key ID.

For HTTP bundles, Git repositories, and Subversion repositories, set Username to the user name.

Password -> (string)

When included in a request, the parameter depends on the repository type.

For Amazon S3 bundles, set Password to the appropriate IAM secret access key.

For HTTP bundles and Subversion repositories, set Password to the password.

For more information on how to safely handle IAM credentials, see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-access-keys-best-practices.html .

In responses, AWS OpsWorks Stacks returns *****FILTERED***** instead of the actual value.

SshKey -> (string)

In requests, the repository’s SSH key.

In responses, AWS OpsWorks Stacks returns *****FILTERED***** instead of the actual value.

Revision -> (string)

The application’s version. AWS OpsWorks Stacks enables you to easily deploy new versions of an application. One of the simplest approaches is to have branches or revisions in your repository that represent different versions that can potentially be deployed.

Shorthand Syntax:

Type=string,Url=string,Username=string,Password=string,SshKey=string,Revision=string

JSON Syntax:

{
  "Type": "git"|"svn"|"archive"|"s3",
  "Url": "string",
  "Username": "string",
  "Password": "string",
  "SshKey": "string",
  "Revision": "string"
}

--domains (list)

The app virtual host settings, with multiple domains separated by commas. For example: 'www.example.com, example.com'

(string)

Syntax:

"string" "string" ...

--enable-ssl | --no-enable-ssl (boolean)

Whether to enable SSL for the app.

--ssl-configuration (structure)

An SslConfiguration object with the SSL configuration.

Certificate -> (string)

The contents of the certificate’s domain.crt file.

PrivateKey -> (string)

The private key; the contents of the certificate’s domain.kex file.

Chain -> (string)

Optional. Can be used to specify an intermediate certificate authority key or client authentication.

Shorthand Syntax:

Certificate=string,PrivateKey=string,Chain=string

JSON Syntax:

{
  "Certificate": "string",
  "PrivateKey": "string",
  "Chain": "string"
}

--attributes (map)

One or more user-defined key/value pairs to be added to the stack attributes.

key -> (string)

value -> (string)

Shorthand Syntax:

  KeyName1=string,KeyName2=string

Where valid key names are:
  DocumentRoot
  RailsEnv
  AutoBundleOnDeploy
  AwsFlowRubySettings

JSON Syntax:

{"DocumentRoot"|"RailsEnv"|"AutoBundleOnDeploy"|"AwsFlowRubySettings": "string"
  ...}

--environment (list)

An array of EnvironmentVariable objects that specify environment variables to be associated with the app. After you deploy the app, these variables are defined on the associated app server instance. For more information, see Environment Variables .

There is no specific limit on the number of environment variables. However, the size of the associated data structure - which includes the variables’ names, values, and protected flag values - cannot exceed 20 KB. This limit should accommodate most if not all use cases. Exceeding it will cause an exception with the message, “Environment: is too large (maximum is 20KB).”

Note

If you have specified one or more environment variables, you cannot modify the stack’s Chef version.

(structure)

Represents an app’s environment variable.

Key -> (string)

(Required) The environment variable’s name, which can consist of up to 64 characters and must be specified. The name can contain upper- and lowercase letters, numbers, and underscores (_), but it must start with a letter or underscore.

Value -> (string)

(Optional) The environment variable’s value, which can be left empty. If you specify a value, it can contain up to 256 characters, which must all be printable.

Secure -> (boolean)

(Optional) Whether the variable’s value will be returned by the DescribeApps action. To conceal an environment variable’s value, set Secure to true . DescribeApps then returns *****FILTERED***** instead of the actual value. The default value for Secure is false .

Shorthand Syntax:

Key=string,Value=string,Secure=boolean ...

JSON Syntax:

[
  {
    "Key": "string",
    "Value": "string",
    "Secure": true|false
  }
  ...
]

--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml (string) Reads arguments from the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, those values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally. This may not be specified along with --cli-input-yaml.

--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. Similarly, if provided yaml-input it will print a sample input YAML that can be used with --cli-input-yaml. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command. The generated JSON skeleton is not stable between versions of the AWS CLI and there are no backwards compatibility guarantees in the JSON skeleton generated.

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Examples¶

Note

To use the following examples, you must have the AWS CLI installed and configured. See the Getting started guide in the AWS CLI User Guide for more information.

Unless otherwise stated, all examples have unix-like quotation rules. These examples will need to be adapted to your terminal’s quoting rules. See Using quotation marks with strings in the AWS CLI User Guide .

To create an app

The following example creates a PHP app named SimplePHPApp from code stored in a GitHub repository. The command uses the shorthand form of the application source definition.

aws opsworks --region us-east-1 create-app --stack-id f6673d70-32e6-4425-8999-265dd002fec7 --name SimplePHPApp --type php --app-source Type=git,Url=git://github.com/amazonwebservices/opsworks-demo-php-simple-app.git,Revision=version1

Output:

{
  "AppId": "6cf5163c-a951-444f-a8f7-3716be75f2a2"
}

To create an app with an attached database

The following example creates a JSP app from code stored in .zip archive in a public S3 bucket. It attaches an RDS DB instance to serve as the app’s data store. The application and database sources are defined in separate JSON files that are in the directory from which you run the command.

aws opsworks --region us-east-1 create-app --stack-id 8c428b08-a1a1-46ce-a5f8-feddc43771b8 --name SimpleJSP --type java --app-source file://appsource.json --data-sources file://datasource.json

The application source information is in appsource.json and contains the following.

{
  "Type": "archive",
  "Url": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/jsp_example/simplejsp.zip"
}

The database source information is in datasource.json and contains the following.

[
  {
    "Type": "RdsDbInstance",
    "Arn": "arn:aws:rds:us-west-2:123456789012:db:clitestdb",
    "DatabaseName": "mydb"
  }
]

Note: For an RDS DB instance, you must first use register-rds-db-instance to register the instance with the stack. For MySQL App Server instances, set Type to OpsworksMysqlInstance. These instances are created by AWS OpsWorks, so they do not have to be registered.

Output:

{
  "AppId": "26a61ead-d201-47e3-b55c-2a7c666942f8"
}

For more information, see Adding Apps in the AWS OpsWorks User Guide.

Output¶

AppId -> (string)

The app ID.

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