cloud-cartographer 0.0.2

AWS Cloudformation mapping tool to expose resources managed by Cloudformation and dependencies between stacks via their export/import relations.

Cloud Cartographer

Cloud Cartographer is a powerful tool for analyzing and visualizing AWS CloudFormation stacks. It provides capabilities to scan your AWS infrastructure, filter stacks by tags, and generate both tabular (markdown) and interactive visualizations of your cloud architecture.

Features

• Stack Discovery: Scan AWS CloudFormation stacks across multiple regions
• Tag-based Filtering: Filter stacks based on specific tags
• Flexible Output: Generate markdown tables with customizable headers
• Interactive Visualization: Create interactive D3.js-based visualizations of stack relationships
• Import/Export Mapping: Visualize dependencies between stacks through their import/export relations
• Multi-region Support: Analyze stacks across multiple AWS regions

Installation

Prerequisites

• Python 3.x
• AWS credentials configured
• Git

Steps

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/vvangestel/cloud-cartographer.git
cd cloud-cartographer

2. Install the package:

pip3 install .

Note: PyPI installation will be available in future releases.

Usage

Basic Usage

The basic command structure is:

ccarto [-h] [-p PROFILE] [-r REGIONS [REGIONS ...]] [-f FILTER [FILTER ...]] [--headers HEADERS] [-i INPUT]
       [-o OUTPUT] [-v]

Command Line Options

• -p, --profile PROFILE: Specify the AWS profile to use
• -r, --regions REGIONS [REGIONS ...]: Specify one or more AWS regions to scan
• -f, --filter FILTER [FILTER ...]: Filter stacks by tags (format: Key:Value)
• --headers HEADERS: Custom headers for markdown table output
• -i, --input INPUT: Skip AWS API calls and use existing JSON data for visualization
• -o, --output OUTPUT: Specify output filename for JSON graph data (defaults to cloudformation_map.json)
• -v, --verbose: Enable verbose output

Examples

1. Scan all stacks in a specific region:

ccarto -r eu-west-1

2. Filter stacks by tags:

ccarto -f Environment:Production Team:DevOps

3. Use a specific AWS profile and output to a specific file:

ccarto -p myprofile -o specific_output.json

4. Generate visualization from existing JSON: (TODO)

ccarto -i existing_data.json

Visualization

The tool includes a D3.js-based visualization component that creates an interactive map of your CloudFormation stacks. To use the visualization:

1. Generate the JSON output using the tool
2. Open the included HTML file in a web browser
3. Explore the interactive visualization of your stack relationships

Contributing

This is a WIP project. Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

Support

For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue in the GitHub repository.

Roadmap

• PyPI package publication
• Enhanced filtering capabilities
• Enhanced visualization options