CF Purge

Quickly delete multiple CloudFormation stacks as a bulk operation.

Delete stacks that start with a prefix, end with a suffix, or contain a string in their name.

Usage

Download

MacOS:

curl -Lof cf-purge "https://github.com/Dzhuneyt/cf-purge/releases/latest/download/cf-purge-darwin-$(uname -m)"
chmod +x cf-purge
sudo mv cf-purge /usr/local/bin/

Linux:

architecture=""
case $(uname -m) in
    i386 | i686)   architecture="386" ;;
    x86_64) architecture="amd64" ;;
    arm)    dpkg --print-architecture | grep -q "arm64" && architecture="arm64" || architecture="arm64" ;;
    *)   echo "Unable to determine system architecture."; exit 1 ;;
esac
curl -Lof cf-purge "https://github.com/Dzhuneyt/cf-purge/releases/latest/download/cf-purge-linux-${architecture}"
chmod +x cf-purge
sudo mv cf-purge /usr/local/bin/

Windows:

Just grab the latest .exe from the Releases page, based on your CPU architecture.

Usage

cf-purge is a command-line tool. It takes a single argument - a glob pattern string that matches the CloudFormation stack names you want to delete.

Some examples:

cf-purge --glob "*-some-glob-pattern-*" # Deletes all stacks that match the glob pattern
cf-purge --glob "*-api" # Deletes all stacks that end with "-api"
cf-purge --glob "my-stack-*" # Deletes all stacks that start with "my-stack-"

Roadmap

Handle delete failures due to stack dependencies
Delete by prefix or suffix, not just by glob pattern
CI (GH Actions) to auto publish binaries + update documentation to simplify usage of the tool

Contributions

All contributions are welcome. Please open an issue or a PR if you have any ideas or improvements.