awless

awless is a powerful, innovative and small surface command line interface (CLI) to manage Amazon Web Services.

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Why awless

awless stands out by providing the following features:

• small and hierarchical set of commands
• create and revert fully-fledged infrastructures through a new simple and powerful templating language (see awless templates (wiki))
• local log of all your cloud modifications done through awless
• exploration of your cloud infrastructure and resources relations, even offline using a local graph storage
• greater output's readability with numerous machine and human friendly formats
• ensure smart defaults & security best practices
• connect easily using awless' smart SSH to your private & public instances

Install

Choose one of the following options:

1. On macOS, use homebrew: brew tap wallix/awless; brew install awless
2. With curl (macOS/Linux), run: curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wallix/awless/master/getawless.sh | bash
3. Download the latest awless binaries (Windows/Linux/macOS) from Github
4. If you have Golang already installed, install from the source with: go get -u github.com/wallix/awless

Main Features

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• Explore a resource given only a name (or id/arn) showing its properties, relations, dependencies, etc.: awless show
• Aliasing of resources through their natural name so you don't have to always use cryptic ids that are impossible to remember
• Creation, update and deletion of complex infrastructures with smart defaults and sound autocomplete through awless templates: awless run my-awless-templates/create_my_infra.txt
• Powerful CRUD CLI one-liner (integrated in the awless templating engine) with: awless create instance ..., awless create vpc ..., awless attach policy ...
• Easy reporting of all the CLI template executions: awless log
• Revert of executed templates and resources creation: awless revert
• Create instances with a specific community bare distribution independently of the AWS region: awless create instance distro=debian ...
• Leveraging AWS userdata to provision instance on creation given remote (i.e http) or local scripts: awless create instance ... userdata=http://...
• Clean and simple SSH to public & private instances using only a name: awless ssh my-production-instance, awless ssh redis-prod --through jump-server
• Resolve public images dynamically (i.e. independant of the region specific AMI id): awless search images canonical:ubuntu:xenial --latest-id
• Switch AWS accounts (i.e. profile) and regions easily with awless switch
• Inspectors are small CLI utilities to run analysis on your cloud resources graphs: awless inspect
• Manual sync mode to fetch & store resources locally. Then query & inspect your cloud offline: awless sync
• CLI autocompletion for Unix/Linux's bash and zsh awless completion
• Clear and easy listing of multi-region cloud resources (subnets, instances, users, buckets, records, etc.) on AWS EC2, IAM, S3, RDS, AutoScaling, SNS, SQS, Route53, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, Lambda, etc.: awless list
• Output formats either human (Markdown-compatible tables) or machine readable (csv, tsv, json, ...): --format
• Listing filters via resources properties or resources tags: --filter property=val, --tag Env=Production, --tag-value Purchased, --tag-key Dept,Internal

Getting started

Take the tour at Getting Started (wiki).

Or read the introductory blog post about awless.

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About

awless is an open source project created by Henri Binsztok, Quentin Bourgerie, Simon Caplette and François-Xavier Aguessy at WALLIX. awless is released under the Apache License and sponsored by Wallix.

Disclaimer: Awless allows for easy resource creation with your cloud provider;
we will not be responsible for any cloud costs incurred (even if you create a 
million instances using awless templates).

Contributors are welcome! Please head to Contributing (wiki) to learn more. Note that awless uses triplestore another project developped at WALLIX.