AWS Administration Cookbook

How to do it...

1. Open your favorite text editor, and start a new CloudFormation template by defining the AWSTemplateFormatVersion and Description:

        AWSTemplateFormatVersion: "2010-09-09"         Description: Create an EFS file system and endpoints.

2. Create a top-level Parameters section, and define the required parameters, VpcId and SubnetIds, inside it:

        VpcId:           Description: VPC ID that contains the subnets that will             access the file system           Type: AWS::EC2::VPC::Id         SubnetIds:           Description: Subnet IDs allowed to access the EFS file system           Type: List<AWS::EC2::Subnet::Id>

3. Create a top-level Resources property, which will contain all the resources defined.

4. Under the Resources property, add the EFS filesystem resource:

        FileSystem:  Type: ...