# Install org-formation with Homebrew Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool for AWS Organizations. Version 1.0.17 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:org-formation ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install org-formation ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:org-formation - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 1.0.17 - **Source summary:** Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool for AWS Organizations - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** MIT - **Source archive:** - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00 ## Executables - aws-organization-formation (cli) - ofn (cli) - org-formation (cli) - aws-organization-formation (alias) - ofn (alias) - org-formation (alias) ## Dependencies - node ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on all ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 1.0.17 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://github.com/org-formation/org-formation-cli - info: No package-manager update timestamp was available. - info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available. ## Project history and usage AWS Organization Formation, distributed as org-formation, is a TypeScript CLI for managing AWS Organizations as infrastructure as code. It models accounts, organizational units, service control policies, cross-account CloudFormation resources, and account-provisioning tasks in version-controlled templates. ### Project history The org-formation-cli repository was created on 2019-08-22. The project emerged in the period when AWS Organizations and multi-account landing zones were becoming ordinary cloud architecture, but many account and policy changes were still performed through consoles or bespoke scripts. Its README presents three central features: IaC for AWS Organizations resources, CloudFormation annotations for cross-account provisioning, and automation of account creation and resource provisioning. The docs describe organization.yml templates containing Accounts, OUs, SCPs, and root-account metadata. ### Adoption history AWS's Open Source Blog published a 2020 series on managing AWS Organizations with org-formation, describing it as an open-source, community-supported tool for managing different aspects of AWS Organizations through IaC. That coverage helped place the package in the AWS multi-account governance ecosystem rather than only in its GitHub niche. The GitHub repository shows meaningful operator adoption for a specialized cloud-governance CLI, with more than a thousand stars and topics covering AWS, Control Tower, landing zones, organizations, CloudFormation, and DevOps. ### How it is used Typical use starts with org-formation init organization.yml, which creates a local organization-formation file and an S3-backed state file. Operators then run update or change-set commands to apply changes to accounts, OUs, service control policies, and related resources. Teams use the tool in CI/CD to review and apply AWS Organizations changes from source control. The README also documents Docker usage that mounts local AWS credentials, reflecting a common operational pattern for high-privilege organization-management tooling. ### Why package nerds care org-formation is significant because it packages AWS Organizations governance as a normal CLI with npm, Docker, and Homebrew entry points. It turns a high-privilege, account-wide administrative workflow into an installable developer tool with templates, task files, and repeatable command semantics. For package metadata, it is a good example of an IaC package whose executable names differ across distributions: aws-organization-formation on npm, org-formation and ofn as CLIs, and org-formation as the Homebrew formula. ### Timeline - 2019-08-22: org-formation/org-formation-cli repository created on GitHub. - 2020-08: AWS Open Source Blog published its org-formation walkthrough series. - 2024-02: GitHub release pages show v1.0.x maintenance releases in the stable line. ### Related projects - Related AWS services include AWS Organizations, service control policies, CloudFormation, CodeCommit, CodePipeline, and Control Tower. The org-formation-reference repository provides a best-practices reference architecture for starting AWS Organizations with org-formation. ### Sources - - - - - - - ## Security Notes infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal. - **Geiger risk:** orange / medium - infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal ## Configuration and credential file locations These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval. ## Configuration files - Unix: ./.org-formationrc, organization.yml ## Credential files - Unix: ~/.aws/credentials, ~/.aws/config ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** org-formation - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** stable ## Related links - [Cloud CLI packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/cloud-clis/) - Belongs to a cloud or infrastructure command family. - [Source-control packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family. - [Secret-risk packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/secret-risk-packages/) - Has protected-tool coverage, approval-gate, or non-low Geiger security signals. - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [node](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/node/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [cloudformation-cli](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cloudformation-cli/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: aws, cli, cloud-infrastructure, cloudformation, infrastructure-as-code. - [rain](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/rain/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: aws, cli, cloud-infrastructure, cloudformation, infrastructure-as-code. - [sceptre](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/sceptre/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: aws, cli, cloud-infrastructure, cloudformation, infrastructure-as-code. - [terracognita](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/terracognita/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: aws, cli, cloud-infrastructure, infrastructure-as-code. - [terraform-local](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/terraform-local/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: aws, cli, cloud-infrastructure, infrastructure-as-code. - [aiac](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/aiac/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-infrastructure, infrastructure-as-code. - [cdk8s](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cdk8s/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-infrastructure, infrastructure-as-code. - [cdktf](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cdktf/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-infrastructure, infrastructure-as-code. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/org-formation.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/org-formation.yml) ## Sources - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - package version freshness - av.db category and tag curation - package relationship graph - cross-ecosystem install command graph