cloudformation

Cloud Formation Kilt Runtime

This kilt runtime alters cloud formation templates to apply kilt definitions. It installs a Cloud Formation Macro that will alter the incoming template.

##Components

• installer - installer for the macro
• cmd/handler - the golang lambda functions powering the Macro
• cmd/cfn-apply-kilt - applies kilt transformation to a CFN template
• cmd/cfn-image-info - gets configuration for the image from repository

Usage

The installer will create a CFN macro that you can use to apply automatically instrumentation to task definitions. To use it with a macro called MyMacro add Transform: MyMacro or Transform: ["MyMacro"] to the root of your CFN Template.

There are 2 modes of operation for the macro, both selected during install. opt-in and opt-out. You can use the following tags to include or exclude pieces of your task definition:

• "kilt-include": "<any-value>" - will apply instrumentation in opt-in mode of operation
• "kilt-ignore": "<any_value>" - will not apply instrumentation in opt-out mode of operation
• "kilt-include-containers": "containerA:ContainerB" - value is a colon separated list of container names. Will include only some contaiers in opt-in mode
• "kilt-ignore-containers": "containerA:containerB" - will exclude some containers in opt-out mode

Metadata offered

Inside the kilt definitions original.metadata is a hashmap containing tags of the task definition.