Command Line Interface for AWS CloudFormation.

awscfncli is a simple CLI tool that helps you manage AWS CloudFormation stacks.

Features:

• Simple CLI interface.
• YAML stack configuration file.
• Stack management.
• ChangeSet management.
• Display and tracking stack events, including nested stack.
• Tracking stack export value and references.

cfn COMMAND SUBCOMMAND STACK_CONFIG [ARGS]...

To view a list of available subcommands, type:

cfn COMMAND --help

To view help of a particular subcommand, type:

cfn COMMAND SUBCOMMAND --help

Supported commands:

• template
  • validate - Validate template
  • reflect - Generate config from existing stack
• stack
  • deploy - Deploy new stack
  • update - Update stack
  • describe - Describe stack status
  • tail - Print stack events
  • delete - Delete stack
• changeset
  • create - Create new ChangeSet
  • list - List ChangeSet of stack
  • describe - Describe changes
  • execute - Update stack using ChangeSet

STACK_CONFIG is a simple YAML file describes stack deploy parameters:

Stack:
  Region:               us-east-1
  StackName:            SampleIAMUsersGroupsAndPolicies
  TemplateURL:          https://s3.amazonaws.com/cloudformation-templates-us-east-1/IAM_Users_Groups_and_Policies.template
  Capabilities:         [CAPABILITY_IAM]
  Parameters:
    Password:           bob180180180
  Tags:
    project:            Bob

Install using pip, from pypi:

pip install awscfncli

Read the tutorial

Check boto3 document.