This repo builds a traditional RPM from the AWS Cloudformation bootstrap tools that can be installed on any CentOS or RHEL system. We created this repo because we are not using Amazon Linux, but still wanted to easily use cfn-init and other tools without having to compile locally.

We are using Bintray to host the RPM repository for us. To install the yum repo, run the following as root:

yum -y install epel-release
curl -L -o /etc/yum.repos.d/cloudformation-helper-scripts.repo https://bintray.com/maryvilledev/cloudformation-helper-scripts/rpm
yum -y install aws-cfn-bootstrap

The tools are installed into /opt/aws, which is not added to PATH.