Tacks makes it convenient to build and maintain AWS CloudFormation exectuable templates and snippets without resorting to an additional toolchain.
If offers the following features (in no particular order):
- Combine metadata (e.g. tags, the name of stack, rollback behaviour) with stack resources in one file
- Support for environments (e.g. production, staging ...) and environment-specific settings
- Executable (
+x) templates - Stack event viewing
- Interchangeably use YAML or JSON for describing a stack (since JSON is YAML starting with YAML 1.2)
See examples/ for full-blown examples on how to use tacks.