CFCT-DEPLOYMENT-INSTRUCTIONS.md

Customizations for AWS Control Tower Deployment Instructions

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Table of Contents

• Prerequisites
• References

Prerequisites

Create the AWSControlTowerExecution IAM Role

• The AWSControlTowerExecution Role provides the support needed to deploy solutions to the management account across regions as CloudFormation StackSets and it is required for the SRA CFCT solution deployments.
• This role is created as part of the common_prerequisites solution deployment.

Deploy Customizations for AWS Control Tower (CFCT) Solution

• Option 1 (Recommended) Deploy the Common CFCT Setup solution.
• Option 2 Manually deploy the Customizations for AWS Control Tower solution following the below instructions.
  • In the Management account (home region), deploy a new CloudFormation stack with the below recommended settings:
    • Amazon S3 URL = https://s3.amazonaws.com/solutions-reference/customizations-for-aws-control-tower/latest/custom-control-tower-initiation.template
    • Stack name = custom-control-tower-initiation
    • AWS CodePipeline Source = AWS CodeCommit
    • Failure Tolerance Percentage = 0
    • Acknowledge that AWS CloudFormation might create IAM resources with custom names

AWS CodeCommit Repo

1. On the local machine install git and git-remote-codecommit.
2. Clone the AWS CodeCommit repository via git clone codecommit::<HOME REGION>://custom-control-tower-configuration custom-control-tower-configuration

Deployment Instructions

1. Determine which version of the Customizations for AWS Control Tower solution you have deployed:
   1. Within the management account (home region) find the CloudFormation Stack for the Customizations for Control Tower (e.g. custom-control-tower-initiation)
   2. Select the Outputs tab
   3. The CustomControlTowerSolutionVersion Value is the version running in the environment
      1. Version 1 = v1.x.x = manifest.yaml version 2020-01-01
      2. Version 2 = v2.x.x = manifest.yaml version 2021-03-15
2. Follow the instructions for the cooresponding version:
   • Version 1 Deployment Instructions
   • Version 2 Deployment Instructions

Version 1 Deployment Instructions

1. Copy the files to the Customizations for AWS Control Tower configuration custom-control-tower-configuration
   • parameters [required for manifest version 2020-01-01]
     • Copy the parameter files from the parameters folder
     • Only one of the main parameter files is required. We recommend using the main-ssm file.
   • policies [optional]
     • service control policies files (*.json)
   • templates [required]
     • Copy the template files from the templates folder that are referenced in the manifest.yaml
     • Only one of the main template files is required. We recommend using the main-ssm file.
   • manifest.yaml [required]
2. Verify and update the parameters within each of the parameter json files to match the target environment
3. Update the manifest.yaml file with the organizational unit names, account names and SSM parameters for the target environment
4. Deploy the Customizations for AWS Control Tower configuration by pushing the code to the AWS CodeCommit repository or uploading to the AWS S3 Bucket

Version 2 Deployment Instructions

1. Copy the files to the Customizations for AWS Control Tower configuration custom-control-tower-configuration
   • policies [optional]
     • service control policies files (*.json)
   • templates [required]
     • Copy the template files from the templates folder that are referenced in the manifest-v2.yaml
     • Only one of the main template files is required. We recommend using the main-ssm file.
   • manifest-v2.yaml [required]
2. Rename the manifest-v2.yaml to manifest.yaml
3. Update the manifest.yaml file with the parameters, organizational unit names, account names and SSM parameters for the target environment
4. Deploy the Customizations for AWS Control Tower configuration by pushing the code to the AWS CodeCommit repository or uploading to the AWS S3 Bucket

Delete Instructions

1. Within the Customizations for AWS Control Tower configuration
   1. Remove the solution configuration from the manifest.yaml file
   2. (Optional) Delete the parameter (Version 1 only) and template files for the solution
2. Deploy the Customizations for AWS Control Tower configuration
3. After the pipeline completes, log into the management account and navigate to the CloudFormation StackSet page
   1. Delete the Stack Instances from the CustomControlTower-<solution_name>* CloudFormation StackSets
   2. After the Stack Instances are deleted, delete the CustomControlTower-<solution_name>* CloudFormation StackSets

References

• Customizations for AWS Control Tower