Convection
A fully generic, modular DSL for AWS CloudFormation
This gem aims to provide a reusable model for AWS CloudFormation in Ruby. It exposes a DSL for template definition, and a simple, decoupled abstraction of a CloudFormation Stack to compile and apply templates.
Contributing
Please read our Contributing guidelines for more information on contributing to Convection.
Installation
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'convection'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install convection
CLI Commands
Converging
-
To converge all stacks in your cloudfile run
convection converge
. If you provide the name of your stack as a additional argument such asconvection converge my-stack-name
then all stacks above and including the stack you specified will be converged.
Diff
-
To display diff between your local changes and the version of your stack in cloud formation of your changes run
convection diff
.
Help
-
To print out a list of available cli options with their descriptions run
convection help
.
-
To print out the cloud formation template for a specific stack run
convection print my-stack-name
.
Validate
-
To validate your stack is not missing a required resource run
convection validate my-stack-name
.
Documentation
We highly recommend consulting the getting started guide for a in depth walk through on how to to set up your project and create and deploy a stack. Example stacks and resources are available in the convection/example folder
License
Copyright © 2015 John Manero, Rapid7 LLC.
MIT License
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