awless is a powerful, innovative and small surface command line interface (CLI) to manage Amazon Web Services.

Why awless

awless stands out by providing the following features:

small and hierarchical set of commands
create and revert fully-fledged infrastructures through a new simple and powerful templating language (see awless templates (wiki))
local log of all your cloud modifications done through awless
exploration of your cloud infrastructure and resources relations, even offline using a local graph storage
greater output's readability with numerous machine and human friendly formats
ensure smart defaults & security best practices
connect easily using awless' smart SSH to your private & public instances

Install

Choose one of the following options:

On macOS, use homebrew: brew tap wallix/awless; brew install awless
With curl (macOS/Linux), run: curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wallix/awless/master/getawless.sh | bash
Download the latest awless binaries (Windows/Linux/macOS) from Github
If you have Golang already installed, install from the source with: go get -u github.com/wallix/awless

If you have previously used the AWS CLI or aws-shell, you don't need to configure anything! Your config will be automatically loaded (i.e. ~/.aws/{credentials,config}) and awless will prompt for any missing info (more at our getting started).

Main features

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Aliasing of resources through their natural name so you don't have to always use cryptic ids that are impossible to remember
awless show : Explore a specific resource - even offline thanks to the sync ;) - given only a name (or id/arn) showing its properties, relations, dependencies, etc.
```
$ awless show jsmith --local
```

awless list : Clear and easy listing of multi-region cloud resources (subnets, instances, users, buckets, records, etc.) on AWS EC2, IAM, S3, RDS, AutoScaling, SNS, SQS, Route53, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, Lambda, etc. Listing filters via resources properties or resources tags.

$ awless list instances --sort uptime --local
$ awless list users --format csv --columns name,created
$ awless list volumes --filter state=use --filter type=gp2
$ awless list volumes --tag-value Purchased
$ awless ls vpcs --tag-key Dept --tag-key Internal --format tsv
$ awless ls instances --tag Env=Production,Dept=Marketing
$ awless ls instances --filter state=running,type=micro --format json
$ awless ls s3objects --filter bucket=pdf-bucket -r us-west-2
$ ...
(see awless ls -h)

awless run : Create, update and delete complex infrastructures with smart defaults and sound auto-complete through awless templates.

$ awless run ~/templates/my-infra.aws
$ awless run https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wallix/awless-templates/master/linux_bastion.aws
etc.

Hundreds of powerful CRUD CLI one-liners integrated in the awless templating engine:

$ awless create instance -h
$ awless create vpc -h
$ awless attach policy -h
$ ...
(see awless -h)

awless log : Detailled and easy reporting of all the CLI template executions
awless revert : Revert of executed templates and resources creation

Create instances straight from a distro name. No need to know the region or AMI ;) (free tier community bare distro only, see awless create instance -h)

$ awless create instance distro=debian
$ awless create instance distro=coreos
$ awless create instance distro=redhat::7.2 type=t2.micro
$ awless create instance distro=debian:debian:jessie lock=true
$ awless create instance distro=amazonlinux:amzn2
etc.

Leveraging AWS userdata to provision instance on creation from remote (i.e http) or local scripts: awless create instance ... userdata=/home/john/...

awless ssh : Clean and simple SSH to public & private instances using only a name

$ awless ssh my-production-instance
$ awless ssh redis-prod --through jump-server
$ awless ssh 34.215.29.221
$ awless ssh db-private --private
$ awless ssh 172.31.77.151 --port 2222 --through my-proxy --through-port 23
$ ...
(see awless ssh -h)

awless switch : Switch easily between AWS accounts (i.e. profile) and regions

$ awless switch admin eu-west-2
$ awless switch us-west-1
$ awless switch mfa
etc.

awless transparently syncs cloud resources locally to a graph representation in order for the CLI to leverage data and their relations in other awless commands and in an offline manner (more on the sync)
awless sync : Explicit and manual command to fetch & store resources locally. Then query & inspect your cloud offline
Output listing formats either human (default display is Markdown-compatible tables) or machine readable (csv, tsv, json, ...): --format
awless inspect : Leverage experimental and community inspectors which are interface implementation utilities to run analysis on your cloud resources graphs
```
$ awless inspect -i bucket_sizer
(see awless inspect -h)
```
awless completion : CLI autocompletion for Unix/Linux's bash and zsh

Getting started

Take the tour at Getting Started (wiki).

Or read the introductory blog post about awless.

About

awless is an open source project created by Henri Binsztok, Quentin Bourgerie, Simon Caplette and François-Xavier Aguessy at WALLIX. awless is released under the Apache License and sponsored by Wallix.

Disclaimer: Awless allows for easy resource creation with your cloud provider;
we will not be responsible for any cloud costs incurred (even if you create a 
million instances using awless templates).

Contributors are welcome! Please head to Contributing (wiki) to learn more. Note that awless uses triplestore another project developped at WALLIX.

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