Parfait

A command-line tool for creating and managing cloudformation stacks.

Features

• Easy command-line syntax for launching and updating stacks with parameters
• Polling creates and stack updates
• Polling Cloudwatch Logs

Installing

Either download the binary from https://github.com/lox/parfait/releases, or install with golang:

go get github.com/lox/parfait

Usage

Watch a Stack

This polls the events from a stack until a terminal event occurs.

parfait watch-stack my-stack

Creating a Stack

parfait create-stack --template https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/cloudformation-templates-ap-southeast-2/WordPress_Single_Instance.template wordpress Param1=blah Param2=blah

2016/12/18 17:35:13 CREATE_IN_PROGRESS -> wordpress [AWS::CloudFormation::Stack] => "User Initiated"
2016/12/18 17:35:19 CREATE_IN_PROGRESS -> WebServerSecurityGroup [AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup]
2016/12/18 17:35:34 CREATE_IN_PROGRESS -> WebServerSecurityGroup [AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup] => "Resource creation Initiated"
2016/12/18 17:35:34 CREATE_COMPLETE -> WebServerSecurityGroup [AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup]
2016/12/18 17:35:38 CREATE_IN_PROGRESS -> WebServer [AWS::EC2::Instance]
...

Updating a Stack

parfait update-stack my-stack Param1=blah Param2=blah

Follow Cloudwatch Logs

This polls the events from a stack until a terminal event occurs.

parfait follow-logs --group my-log-group