Creating App Mesh resources with AWS CloudFormation
Important
End of support notice: On September 30, 2026, AWS will discontinue support for AWS App Mesh. After September 30, 2026, you will no longer be able to access the AWS App Mesh console or AWS App Mesh resources. For more information, visit this blog post Migrating from AWS App Mesh to Amazon ECS Service Connect
App Mesh is integrated with AWS CloudFormation, a service that helps you model and set up your AWS resources so that you can spend less time creating and managing your resources and infrastructure. You create a template that describes all the AWS resources that you want, for example an App Mesh mesh, and CloudFormation takes care of provisioning and configuring those resources for you.
When you use CloudFormation, you can reuse your template to set up your App Mesh resources consistently and repeatedly. Just describe your resources once, and then provision the same resources over and over in multiple AWS accounts and Regions.
App Mesh and CloudFormation templates
To provision and configure resources for App Mesh and related services, you must understand CloudFormation templates. Templates are formatted text files in JSON or YAML. These templates describe the resources that you want to provision in your CloudFormation stacks. If you're unfamiliar with JSON or YAML, you can use CloudFormation Designer to help you get started with CloudFormation templates. For more information, see What is CloudFormation Designer? in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide.
App Mesh supports creating meshes, routes, virtual nodes, virtual routers, and virtual services in CloudFormation. For more information, including examples of JSON and YAML templates for your App Mesh resources, see App Mesh resource type reference in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide.
Learn more about CloudFormation
To learn more about CloudFormation, see the following resources:
