awsweeper mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• awsweeper

Projektgeschichte

The official GitHub repository was created in July 2017, and the first GitHub release listed by the repository is v0.1.0 from November 2017. The README describes AWSweeper as a tool for cleaning AWS accounts and explains that it builds on delete routines from the Terraform AWS provider, list operations from the author's awsls project, and generated code based on AWS API models.

By the documented v0.12.0 release in February 2022, the README described support for more than 290 AWS resource types, with a stated goal of covering every AWS resource supported by Terraform without maintaining large amounts of bespoke deletion code in AWSweeper itself.

Adoptionsgeschichte

AWSweeper's official README documents installation from GitHub releases and from the author's Homebrew tap. The batch input also shows packaging in Homebrew and Nix, which is typical for a niche infrastructure CLI: small enough to remain specialized, but useful enough to be packaged for repeatable workstation and CI installation.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users pass AWSweeper a YAML filter file naming Terraform-style AWS resource type identifiers and optional filters by id, tag, or creation date. The tool lists matching resources before deletion, supports a dry-run mode, and requires explicit confirmation unless the dangerous force flag is used for automation.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Package maintainers care about AWSweeper because it is a compact example of a cloud CLI that delegates hard provider-specific behavior to generated AWS and Terraform-adjacent code. It is also exactly the kind of tool package managers make safer to install: operationally powerful, infrequently used, and much better pinned to a known release than fetched from an arbitrary install script.

Zeitleiste

• 2017: Official GitHub repository created.
• 2017: v0.1.0 GitHub release published.
• 2020: Regular v0.5 through v0.11 release series.
• 2022: v0.12.0 release published.

Related projects

• The README explicitly relates AWSweeper to the Terraform AWS provider for delete routines, awsls for list operations, AWS SDK API models for generated code, and awsrm as a later Unix-like AWS resource deletion tool by the same author.

Quellen

• GitHub releases API lists v0.1.0 on 2017-11-22 and v0.12.0 on 2022-02-08.
• GitHub repository metadata: created_at 2017-07-25.
• Official README documents resource coverage, Terraform provider relationship, awsls relationship, install methods, and usage.
• input.source_facts.package-manager lists Homebrew and Nix packaging.