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Cfnctl brings the Terraform cli experience to AWS Cloudformation :cloud:

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## ☁️  Cfnctl

[[ _pronounced_ cfn control _or_ cloudformation control ]]

Are you a fan of Terraform but forced to use Cloudformation due to organizational or technical reasons? Introducing **cfnctl**, a CLI that brings the Terraform cli experience to Cloudformation. You'll never need to use the AWS Console for managing stacks again!

With *cfnctl*, you write Cloudformation templates as usual but use the cli workflow that you are already used to from Terraform, including:

* **apply**
* **plan**
* **destroy**
* **output**

### Demo

[![Cfnctl](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rogerwelin/cfnctl/master/cfnctl.svg)](https://asciinema.org/a/abFfMrlLp3MTDHjrrzWpbyDDI?autoplay=1)

### Installation

Grab a pre-built binary from the [GitHub Releases page](https://github.com/rogerwelin/cfnctl/releases) for your OS of choice

### Usage

If you are a terraform user the *cfnctl* cli works as you would expect. Running the binary without flags will give you the help output:

```bash
✗ ./cfnctl
 NAME:
    cfnctl - ✨ Terraform cli experience for AWS Cloudformation

COMMANDS:
  apply     Create or update infrastructure
  plan      Show changes required by the current configuration
  destroy   Destroy previously-created infrastructure
  output    Show all exported output values of the selected account and region
  validate  Check whether the configuration is valid
  version   Show the current Cfnctl version
  help, h   Shows a list of commands or help for one command

GLOBAL OPTIONS:
  --help, -h  show help (default: false)

Examples
  Apply infrastructure using the "apply" command.
    $ cfnctl apply --template-file mycfntmpl.yaml --auto-approve
```

### Notice

Cfnctl is under early development and is missing several features such as:

* user cancellation does not clean up stacks,  [Issue](https://github.com/rogerwelin/cfnctl/issues/1) 
* does not support uploading large templates to S3 yet, [Issue](https://github.com/rogerwelin/cfnctl/issues/2) 
* does not support drift detection yet, [Issue](https://github.com/rogerwelin/cfnctl/issues/5)

### Planned Improvements

* **Migrate terminal UI to the [Charm](https://charm.sh) stack** — the current interactive layer uses `buger/goterm` (stagnant since 2022) and `manifoldco/promptui` (effectively abandoned). The plan is to replace these with [Bubble Tea](https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea) for the live-updating resource table, [Lip Gloss](https://github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss) for styled table rendering, and [Huh](https://github.com/charmbracelet/huh) for interactive prompts. This eliminates the manual cursor management and newline hacks in the current streaming output and brings the terminal UI under a single, actively maintained ecosystem.

Feature request and pull requests are welcome. Please see the [Contributing doc](https://github.com/rogerwelin/cfnctl/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)

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