aws-cloudformation-stack-status

Clean display of single most recent event status for each resource in a CloudFormation stack.

Useful for monitoring the progress of a CloudFormation stack create, update, and delete.

Please read the blog post here:

https://alestic.com/2016/11/aws-cloudformation-stack-status/

Demo

Examples

Monitor all stack resource progress live (Interrupt with Ctrl-C):

aws-cloudformation-stack-status --watch --region $region --stack-name $stack

The --stack-name is optional, and multiple stacks can be monitored together:

watch aws-cloudformation-stack-status --watch $webstack $dbstack $dnsstack

One time display of latest status for each stack resource:

aws-cloudformation-stack-status --region $region --stack-name $stack

Requirements

This script does require that you have already installed and configured the aws-cli.