Formatron

Simple AWS CloudFormation configuration with Chef Server

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'formatron'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install formatron

Usage

For the full list of commands and options

formatron help [COMMAND]

Project generation

To initialize a bootstrap configuration including a VPC and Chef Server

formatron generate bootstrap

To initialize an instance configuration with a dependency on a named bootstrap configuration

formatron generate instance

To initialize an AWS credentials file

formatron generate credentials

Deploy and provision

To deploy a configuration with the given target specifier

formatron deploy TARGET

To provision a configuration with the given target specifier

formatron provision TARGET

To destroy a configuration and clean up its cookbooks, etc

formatron destroy TARGET

Bash command completion

Add the following to your .bashrc

eval "$(formatron completion-script)"

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release to create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/formatron/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request