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cfnctl mit Homebrew installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für cfnctl in AI-Agent-Workflows.

Installation

Weitere Installationsbefehle

macOS

Homebrewverifiziert · 100%
brew install cfnctl

local Homebrew formula metadata

Überblick

Paketzusammenfassung

Brings the Terraform cli experience to AWS Cloudformation

Befehle und Aliase

  • cfnctl

Verlauf

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

cfnctl is a Go command-line tool that brings a Terraform-like workflow to AWS CloudFormation. Its README presents familiar commands such as apply, plan, destroy, output, and validate for users who still need to manage CloudFormation stacks.

Projektgeschichte

The official repository was created in September 2021 and frames the tool around a specific workflow problem: teams that like Terraform's CLI experience but are required to use CloudFormation. The README describes the project as early in development and explicitly lists missing features such as large-template S3 upload and drift detection.

The first public GitHub releases in March 2023 were v0.1.0 and v0.1.1. The README continues to invite feature requests and pull requests and notes planned terminal UI work around the Charm stack.

Adoptionsgeschichte

cfnctl is a niche infrastructure tool rather than a broad AWS standard utility. Official distribution is through GitHub releases, and the package metadata in this batch shows it packaged in Homebrew.

Its adoption story is best read as package-manager convenience for CloudFormation-heavy users who want plan/apply style stack operations without switching their template language.

Wie es verwendet wird

The documented commands are apply, plan, destroy, output, validate, and version. The README example uses `cfnctl apply --template-file mycfntmpl.yaml --auto-approve`.

Because the official README does not document a persistent application config file or credentials file, those locations are left null. AWS credential handling may be inherited from the AWS SDK or environment, but that is not named in the project documentation used here.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

cfnctl is interesting to package people because it is a small single-purpose CLI that imports the workflow vocabulary of one infrastructure tool into another ecosystem. That kind of tool often lives or dies by whether it is easy to install as a binary.

The Homebrew formula matters here: it turns a GitHub-release-only CloudFormation helper into a one-command install for macOS operators.

Zeitleiste

  • 2021: The rogerwelin/cfnctl repository is created on GitHub.
  • 2023: v0.1.0 and v0.1.1 are published as GitHub releases.
  • 2026: The README still describes planned improvements and early-development gaps.

Related projects

  • AWS CloudFormation is the stack system cfnctl operates against.
  • Terraform is the workflow model named directly by the README.
  • Charm's Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Huh are listed in the README as planned terminal UI migration targets.

Sicherheitslage

Risikostufe: orange

infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal.

Risikoklassifikator

orange Risiko · mittel Konfidenz · infrastructure

Warum

  • infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal

Signale

  • text:cloud

Installationsverhalten

  • In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
  • Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 8 Plattformziele verfügbar.
  • Build-Metadaten listen 1 Build-Abhängigkeiten.

Empfohlene Prüfung

Prüfe vor unbeaufsichtigter Agent-Nutzung, ob das Tool Klartext-Credentials liest, Remote-Zustand schreibt, Artefakte veröffentlicht oder Plugins ausführt.

Executables

Installierte Executables

BefehlArtSichtbarkeitHinweis
cfnctlcliglobales Executable

Aktualität

Version und Aktualität

Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.

Seite generiert2026-07-08
Manager-Version0.1.1
Manager aktualisiert
lokale DatenOK
Upstreamaktuell
neueste erkannte Versionv0.1.1

https://github.com/rogerwelin/cfnctl

  • InfoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.niedrig Konfidenz

Installationsmetadaten

Paketmetadaten

Paketschlüsselbrew:cfnctl
Version0.1.1
PaketmanagerHomebrew
Paketmanager-Seitehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/cfnctl
Homepagehttps://github.com/rogerwelin/cfnctl
Repositoryhttps://github.com/rogerwelin/cfnctl
Upstream-Dokumentationhttps://github.com/rogerwelin/cfnctl#readme
LizenzApache-2.0
Quellarchivhttps://github.com/rogerwelin/cfnctl/archive/refs/tags/v0.1.1.tar.gz
Build-Abhängigkeitengo
Bottleverfügbar (auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnicht definiert
Dienstkeiner deklariert

Registry-Fakten

Details aus der Quelldatenbank

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namecfnctl
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Head VersionHEAD
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • head
  • stable

Quellspur

Aus Repository-Daten generiert

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