AWS-CloudFormation-Diagrams 0.2.0
A simple CLI script to generate AWS infrastructure diagrams from AWS CloudFormation templates
License: Apache-2.0
Requires Python: >=3.9
Keywords: aws cloudformation diagrams python graphviz

# AWS CloudFormation Diagrams

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A simple CLI script to generate AWS infrastructure diagrams from AWS CloudFormation templates.

## Features

* Parses both YAML and JSON AWS CloudFormation templates
* Supports [140 AWS resource types and any custom resource types](https://github.com/philippemerle/AWS-CloudFormation-Diagrams/blob/main/docs/supported_resource_types.md)
* Supports `Rain::Module` resource type
* Supports `DependsOn`, `Ref`, and `Fn::GetAtt` relationships
* Generates DOT, GIF, JPEG, PDF, PNG, SVG, and TIFF diagrams
* Provides [126 generated diagram examples](https://github.com/philippemerle/AWS-CloudFormation-Diagrams/blob/main/diagrams/)

Have ideas? [Open an issue](https://github.com/philippemerle/AWS-CloudFormation-Diagrams/issues/new) or [start a discussion](https://github.com/philippemerle/AWS-CloudFormation-Diagrams/discussions/new).

## Prerequisites

Following software must be installed:

- [Python](https://www.python.org) 3.9 or higher
- `dot` command ([Graphviz](https://www.graphviz.org/))

## Installation

Following command installs required Python dependencies, i.e., [PyYAML](https://pyyaml.org) and [Diagrams](https://diagrams.mingrammer.com/).

```ssh
# using pip (pip3)
pip install PyYAML diagrams
```

## Usage

```bash
usage: aws-cfn-diagrams [-h] [-o OUTPUT] [-f FORMAT] [--embed-all-icons] filename

Generate AWS infrastructure diagrams from AWS CloudFormation templates

positional arguments:
  filename             the AWS CloudFormation template to process

options:
  -h, --help           show this help message and exit
  -o, --output OUTPUT  output diagram filename
  -f, --format FORMAT  output format, allowed formats are dot, dot_json, gif, jp2, jpe, jpeg, jpg, pdf, png, svg, tif, tiff, set to png by default
  --embed-all-icons    embed all icons into svg or dot_json output diagrams
```

## Examples

The folder [diagrams](https://github.com/philippemerle/AWS-CloudFormation-Diagrams/blob/main/diagrams) contains generated diagrams for most of [AWS CloudFormation templates](
https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/aws-cloudformation-templates).

Following diagram is about WebApp:

![WebApp](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/philippemerle/AWS-CloudFormation-Diagrams/refs/heads/main/diagrams/aws-cloudformation-templates-Solutions-WebApp-webapp.yaml.png)

Following diagram is about Gitea with `Rain::Module`:

![Gitea](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/philippemerle/AWS-CloudFormation-Diagrams/refs/heads/main/diagrams/aws-cloudformation-templates-Solutions-Gitea-Gitea.yaml.png)

Following diagram is about Gitea without `Rain::Module`:

![Gitea](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/philippemerle/AWS-CloudFormation-Diagrams/refs/heads/main/diagrams/aws-cloudformation-templates-Solutions-Gitea-Gitea-pkg.yaml.png)

Following diagram is about AutoScaling:

![AutoScaling](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/philippemerle/AWS-CloudFormation-Diagrams/refs/heads/main/diagrams/aws-cloudformation-templates-AutoScaling-AutoScalingMultiAZWithNotifications.yaml.png)

Following diagram is about EKS:

![EKS](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/philippemerle/AWS-CloudFormation-Diagrams/refs/heads/main/diagrams/aws-cloudformation-templates-EKS-template.yaml.png)

Following diagram is about VPC:

![VPC](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/philippemerle/AWS-CloudFormation-Diagrams/refs/heads/main/diagrams/aws-cloudformation-templates-VPC-VPC_With_Managed_NAT_And_Private_Subnet.yaml.png)

## License

This project is licensed under the [Apache 2.0 License](https://github.com/philippemerle/AWS-CloudFormation-Diagrams/blob/main/LICENSE).

## Contributing

[PRs](https://github.com/philippemerle/AWS-CloudFormation-Diagrams/pulls) and [ideas](https://github.com/philippemerle/AWS-CloudFormation-Diagrams/discussions/categories/ideas) are welcome!

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