Define your AWS Infrastructure as Code with any operating system.
If you can run PowerShell, you can use VaporShell to create your stack.
All 500+ Resource Type and Resource Property Type functions are generated from Amazon's own specification sheet directly (us-east-1). If it's available in CloudFormation, it's available in VaporShell. Using custom resource types? No problem. Serverless Transforms? You're covered as well.
Building CloudFormation templates with VaporShell can take considerably less code compared to using JSON/YAML directly. Combined with the validation built into VaporShell, this means you can build clean templates quickly.
UserData can be painful to get perfect when adding it to your resources. Add-UserData makes it a breeze by allowing you to source your data from a file or by adding your list of strings and/or functions. It will also automatically
wrap the data in Fn::Join and Fn::Base64 for you, cleaning up your template script overall.
VaporShell is built from the ground up using proven methods to ensure reliability where it's needed most; your Cloud backbone.
VaporShell leverages Azure Pipelines for CI/CD with testing in Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Building your CloudFormation templates in PowerShell allows incredible flexbility. Build resource templates as individual script files and source them dynamically, leverage external configurations, etc. Automate your workflow.
Installation is as easy as running Install-Module -Name VaporShell -Scope CurrentUser from a PowerShell prompt. Full details can be found on the PowerShell Gallery
Due to VaporShell leveraging AWS' specification sheet for Resource function creation, VaporShell will typically be updated before most are aware those resources are available within CloudFormation.
With the AWS CLI Tools installed, you can perform inline template file validation by including the -ValidateTemplate switch with Export-VaporShell:
Export-VaporShell $template -Path ~\templates\myTemplate.template -ValidateTemplate
With AWSLabs' cfn-flip installed alongside VaporShell, you can import templates from YAML and export templates to YAML. cfn-flip is installable via pip; more details on cfn-flip can be
found on AWSLabs' GitHub: awslabs/aws-cfn-template-flip
VaporShell is developed under the Apache 2.0 license and will always be free to download and use for whatever you'd like. Check the license details on the project's GitHub.
Coffee donations always accepted though!
Want to add functionality? Feel free to fork the repo and build your own add-ons. Have an issue or enhancement request? It will be handled ASAP, just send over the details via GitHub issue or email! Want to chat quickly about something? Join us in the #VaporShell channel on the PowerShell team Slack!
