Deploying your AWS instance using the CloudFormation CLI

To deploy your AWS instance using CloudFormation CLI, do the following:

1. A ThoughtSpot cluster requires AWS nodes to be configured with EBS volumes.

2. Below is a Sample JSON file to deploy an AWS instance, please edit the values to the keys as per requirement.

   {

   "AWSTemplateFormatVersion" : "2010-09-09",

   "Description" : "Thoughtspot Ec2 Instance",

   "Resources" : {

   "EC2Instance" : {

   "Type" : "AWS::EC2::Instance",

   "Properties" : {

   "AvailabilityZone" : "us-west-2c",

   "ImageId" : "ami-08aaf182e43599854",

   "KeyName" : "<key pair>",

   "InstanceType" : "r4.16xlarge",

   "BlockDeviceMappings" : [

   {

   "DeviceName" : "/dev/xvda",

   "Ebs" : {

   "SnapshotId": "snap-01e554619c99184cf",

   "VolumeType" : "gp2",

   "DeleteOnTermination" : "true",

   "VolumeSize" : "200"

   }

   },

   {

   "DeviceName" : "/dev/xvdb",

   "Ebs" : {

   "SnapshotId": "snap-012d2e12313e1cdb2",

   "VolumeType" : "gp2",

   "DeleteOnTermination" : "true",

   "VolumeSize" : "1024"

   }

   },

   {

   "DeviceName": "/dev/xvdc",

   "Ebs": {

   "SnapshotId": "snap-0ab3b43966023820a",

   "DeleteOnTermination": true,

   "VolumeType": "gp2",

   "VolumeSize": "1024"

   }

   }

   ],

   "EbsOptimized" : true,

   "NetworkInterfaces": [

   {

   "DeviceIndex": 0,

   "Description": "Primary network interface",

   "SubnetId": "subnet-3aaf9e63",

   "DeleteOnTermination": true,

   "GroupSet": [

   "sg-0e2725bca060835ea"

   ]

   }

   ]

   }

   }

   }

   }

3. aws cloudformation create-stack –stack-name testing –template-body file:/// --capabilities CAPABILITY_IAM

4. Verify the AWS instance is deployed from console.