Using Nucleator Stacksets

Nucleator Core Stacksets

Nucleator maintains a set of core Stacksets at https://github.com/47lining in repositories named nucleator-core-*.  These repositories are intended to be used "out-of-the-box" as starting points to quickly establish useful environments and reference architectures within brand-new AWS Accounts.  Additional core Stacksets will become available over time, as selected Community Stacksets are hardened and incorporated into the the core distribution.

The general topics and Stackset detail pages below provide additional information about how to use Nucleator Core Stacksets and some of the key features of each Stackset.

• ssh access and key management for Nucleator Cages and Stacksets — Nucleator makes it easy to access any of the instances within a Cage by generating an ssh config that enables access via the Cage's bastion.
• Changing Default Instance Types within Nucleator Cages and Stacksets — How to change the EC2 instance types used when provisioning Nucleator Cages and Stacksets
• Maintaining Network ACLs and Security Group Ingress/Egress Rules within Nucleator Cages and Stacksets — How to refine and extend the network ACL and security group ingress/egress rules used in Nucleator Cages and Stacksets
• Nucleator Core - Cage — You can easily provision, configure and delete Nucleator Cages that implement high availability, scalability and security best practices.
• Nucleator Core - Builder — Each Nucleator installation relies upon the Builder Stackset. It provides Nucleator's User Interface, a deployment of Nucleator within a Nucleator Cage, and an Artifactory instance for supporting continuous integration and deployment best practices.
• Nucleator Core - Beanstalk — The Beanstalk stackset provides configurable Elastic Beanstalk Applications and Environments within Nucleator Cages.
• Nucleator Core - Redshift — The Redshift Stackset provides configurable Redshift Clusters within Nucleator Cages.
• Accessing a Private Redshift Cluster using an SSH Tunnel through your Cage's Bastion Server — How to securely access a private Redshift cluster from outside Nucleator
• Using Nucleator for Continuous Integration and Delivery — Nucleator's Builder Stackset also provides common, best-practice capabilities that support Continuous Integration and Delivery and that work in concert with other Nucleator Stacksets.

Community Stacksets

You can also use Stacksets contributed by the Nucleator Community.  Anyone can publish a Community Stackset, and you can use Community Stacksets together with Core Stacksets within your Nucleator installation.  See Choosing Nucleator Stacksets.

When you add a Community Stackset to Nucleator, its subcommands are made available seamlessly within the Nucleator CLI.  You can use the CLI itself to see which commands are available and to view details about each command:

nucleator --help # show list of available Stacksets and corresponding top-level nucleator commands
 
nucleator <command> --help # show details of specified command
 
nucleator <command> help # show CLI Reference documentation for specified command (NOT YET IMPLEMENTED)

You will need to refer to the documentation made available with each Community Stackset for details about its operations and how to use it.

Enterprise Stacksets

47Lining offers consulting services as well Nucleator Enterprise Stacksets, bundled with ongoing updates, support and security review services. For more information, please contact us.

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