Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

There are plenty of examples for creating an ASG using a CloudFormation template, but those I found all used a “launch configuration“.

According to the docs, using a launch template is the new hotness, so I foolishly assumed it would be simple to adapt one to the other.

Some time later, I had a working example:

  AutoScalingGroup:
    Type: 'AWS::AutoScaling::AutoScalingGroup'
    Properties:
      LaunchTemplate:
        LaunchTemplateId: !Ref LaunchTemplate
        Version: !GetAtt LaunchTemplate.LatestVersionNumber
      VPCZoneIdentifier:
        - Fn::ImportValue:
            Fn::Sub: '${Network1StackName}-PublicSubnetId'
        - Fn::ImportValue:
            Fn::Sub: '${Network2StackName}-PublicSubnetId'
      MinSize: 1
      MaxSize: 1
  LaunchTemplate:
    Type: 'AWS::EC2::LaunchTemplate'
    Properties:
      LaunchTemplateData:
        ImageId: "..."
        InstanceType: "..."
        SecurityGroupIds:
          - Fn::ImportValue:
              Fn::Sub: '${SecurityGroupsStackName}-SshIngressSecurityGroupId'