awless is a powerful, innovative and small surface command line interface (CLI) to manage Amazon Web Services.
awless stands out by providing the following features:
- small and hierarchical set of commands
- create and revert fully-fledged infrastructures through a new simple and powerful templating language (see
awlesstemplates (wiki)) - local log of all your cloud modifications done through
awless - exploration of your cloud infrastructure and resources relations, even offline using a local graph storage
- greater output's readability with numerous machine and human friendly formats
- ensure smart defaults & security best practices
- connect easily using awless' smart SSH to your private & public instances
Choose one of the following options:
- On macOS, use homebrew:
brew tap wallix/awless; brew install awless - With
curl(macOS/Linux), run:curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wallix/awless/master/getawless.sh | bash - Download the latest
awlessbinaries (Windows/Linux/macOS) from Github - If you have Golang already installed, install from the source with:
go get -u github.com/wallix/awless
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- Explore a resource given only a name (or id/arn) showing its properties, relations, dependencies, etc.:
awless show - Aliasing of resources through their natural name so you don't have to always use cryptic ids that are impossible to remember
- Creation, update and deletion of complex infrastructures with smart defaults and sound autocomplete through awless templates:
awless run my-awless-templates/create_my_infra.txt - Powerful CRUD CLI one-liner (integrated in the awless templating engine) with:
awless create instance ...,awless create vpc ...,awless attach policy ... - Easy reporting of all the CLI template executions:
awless log - Revert of executed templates and resources creation:
awless revert - Create instances with a specific community bare distribution independently of the AWS region:
awless create instance distro=debian ... - Leveraging AWS
userdatato provision instance on creation given remote (i.e http) or local scripts:awless create instance ... userdata=http://... - Clean and simple SSH to public & private instances using only a name:
awless ssh my-production-instance,awless ssh redis-prod --through jump-server - Resolve public images dynamically (i.e. independant of the region specific AMI id):
awless search images canonical:ubuntu:xenial --latest-id - Switch AWS accounts (i.e. profile) and regions easily with
awless switch - Inspectors are small CLI utilities to run analysis on your cloud resources graphs:
awless inspect - Manual sync mode to fetch & store resources locally. Then query & inspect your cloud offline:
awless sync - CLI autocompletion for Unix/Linux's bash and zsh
awless completion - Clear and easy listing of multi-region cloud resources (subnets, instances, users, buckets, records, etc.) on AWS EC2, IAM, S3, RDS, AutoScaling, SNS, SQS, Route53, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, Lambda, etc.:
awless list - Output formats either human (Markdown-compatible tables) or machine readable (csv, tsv, json, ...):
--format - Listing filters via resources properties or resources tags:
--filter property=val,--tag Env=Production,--tag-value Purchased,--tag-key Dept,Internal
Take the tour at Getting Started (wiki).
Or read the introductory blog post about awless.
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awless is an open source project created by Henri Binsztok, Quentin Bourgerie, Simon Caplette and François-Xavier Aguessy at WALLIX.
awless is released under the Apache License and sponsored by Wallix.
Disclaimer: Awless allows for easy resource creation with your cloud provider;
we will not be responsible for any cloud costs incurred (even if you create a
million instances using awless templates).
Contributors are welcome! Please head to Contributing (wiki) to learn more.
Note that awless uses triplestore another project developped at WALLIX.