macOS
brew install cfnctllocal Homebrew formula metadata
brew
Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für cfnctl in AI-Agent-Workflows.
Installation
brew install cfnctllocal Homebrew formula metadata
Überblick
Brings the Terraform cli experience to AWS Cloudformation
Verlauf
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sicherheitslage
infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal.
orange Risiko · mittel Konfidenz · infrastructure
Prüfe vor unbeaufsichtigter Agent-Nutzung, ob das Tool Klartext-Credentials liest, Remote-Zustand schreibt, Artefakte veröffentlicht oder Plugins ausführt.
Executables
| Befehl | Art | Sichtbarkeit | Hinweis |
|---|---|---|---|
cfnctl | cli | globales Executable |
Aktualität
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https://github.com/rogerwelin/cfnctl
Installationsmetadaten
| Paketschlüssel | brew:cfnctl |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.1.1 |
| Paketmanager | Homebrew |
| Paketmanager-Seite | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/cfnctl |
| Homepage | https://github.com/rogerwelin/cfnctl |
| Repository | https://github.com/rogerwelin/cfnctl |
| Upstream-Dokumentation | https://github.com/rogerwelin/cfnctl#readme |
| Lizenz | Apache-2.0 |
| Quellarchiv | https://github.com/rogerwelin/cfnctl/archive/refs/tags/v0.1.1.tar.gz |
| Build-Abhängigkeiten | go |
| Bottle | verfügbar (auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | nicht definiert |
| Dienst | keiner deklariert |
Registry-Fakten
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | cfnctl |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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