Cloud Formation cli based off gist from github.com/nfisher
Use -prompt if you want to be prompted for template param values to use, otherwise the default parameters will be used.
If -prompt is not used and you want to override specific values, pass them as name value pairs on the command line.
Add -w to view status of a stack while it is changing state
By default -w (watch) will check every 5 seconds, but only print an update when it detects an overall cluster status change
If -v is added to watch, it will always print the state every 5 seconds, regardless of it has changed.
Provisioning a stack interactively and watching until it is completed:
./cftool -provision -name test-stack-3 -template test-stack.json -w -prompt
... (setting params interactively)
2015-06-04T16:41:27-07:00 CREATE_IN_PROGRESS
2015-06-04T16:41:42-07:00 CREATE_COMPLETED
2015-06-04T16:41:42-07:00 Finished
Provisioning a stack using default params and watching until it is completed:
./cftool -provision -name test-stack-3 -template test-stack.json -w
2015-06-04T16:41:27-07:00 CREATE_IN_PROGRESS
2015-06-04T16:41:42-07:00 CREATE_COMPLETED
2015-06-04T16:41:42-07:00 Finished
Provisioning a stack using overridden params and watching until it is completed:
./cftool -provision -name test-stack-3 -w -template test-stack.json param1 value1 param2 value2
Overriding param1 -> value1
Overriding param2 -> value2
2015-06-04T16:41:27-07:00 CREATE_IN_PROGRESS
2015-06-04T16:41:32-07:00 CREATE_IN_PROGRESS
2015-06-04T16:41:42-07:00 CREATE_COMPLETED
2015-06-04T16:41:42-07:00 Finished
Watching the progress of a stack that you kicked off with another tool:
./cftool -w -v -name test-stack-6 -i 1
2015-06-04T16:41:27-07:00 DELETE_IN_PROGRESS
2015-06-04T16:41:28-07:00 DELETE_IN_PROGRESS
2015-06-04T16:41:29-07:00 DELETE_IN_PROGRESS
2015-06-04T16:41:31-07:00 DELETE_IN_PROGRESS
...
2015-06-04T16:44:35-07:00 Finished