clouds-aws 0.2.3

A tool for easy handling of AWS Cloudformation stacks as code.

# clouds-aws clouds is a tool that aims to ease the handling of Cloudformation stacks as code from the command line or scripts.

## Features

• Create, update, and delete stacks from the command line or in scripts

• Local file representation of template/parameters of a stack for easy use with SCM

• Quickly get the most often required information about your stacks on the commandline or for use in scripts

• Normalized template format for better Diffs and human readability

## Installation

pip install clouds-aws

## Install requirements * boto3 * PyYAML

## Commands For a list of all commands and features run:

clouds –help clouds [command] –help

### clone Clone a local stack.

### delete Delete a stack in AWS.

Example:

clouds delete –force app-server

This will delete the stack. Notice that deletions always require –force as a measure to protect against unintentional deletions.

You can run the command blocking to make it wait for the stack deletion to finish before terminating by using –wait or –events:

clouds delete –force –events app-server

### describe Outputs a stack’s Outputs, Parameters, and Resources to stdout. You can chose between line output (default) or JSON (using –json flag).

### dump Dump one or several stacks from AWS to local stack representation.

Example:

clouds dump app-server

The above will dump the stack named ‘app-server’ into a subdirectory ‘stacks/app-server’ in the current directory. The local stack representation consists if two files ‘template.json’ and ‘parameters.yaml’. If the stack does not make use of parameters only ‘template.json’ will be writen.

You can dump all stacks in a region by using –all flag:

clouds dump –all

### events Output all stack’s events since its creation.

### format Reformat the ‘template.json’ file of a local stack to a format that serves two purposes:

• support diffs by indentation and sorting dictionary keys

• make it slightly more human readable by reformatting some common structures

Example:

clouds format app-server

You can format all local stacks at once:

clouds format –all

Format also has a pipe mode which is useful in conjunction with e.g. vim. It takes the json template on stdin and outputs it to stdout.

Example:

cat template.json | clouds format –pipe > formatted-template.json

You can use it in vim to reformat the current document using a keybinding in your .vimrc (the example binds <Ctrl+j>):

map <C-j> :!clouds format –pipe<CR>

### list List all local and remote stacks.

### update Update a stack in AWS from local representation.

Example:

clouds update app-server

You can run the command blocking to make it wait for the stack update to finish before terminating by using –wait or –events:

clouds update –events app-server

## Attribution [clouds](https://github.com/cristim/clouds) was first written in Ruby by [Cristian Măgherușan-Stanciu](https://github.com/cristim). Since it is no longer actively developed I completely rewrote clouds in Python adding all the features I missed while using the original clouds almost every day since it was first developed. Thanks Cristian, for all the hours of work I saved!