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CloudFormation Linter

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AWS CloudFormation template Linter
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Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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vscode-cfn-lint

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VS Code CloudFormation Linter uses cfn-lint to lint your CloudFormation templates. [cfn-lint logo]

Features

  • Uses cfn-lint to parse the template and show problems with it.

  • Uses pydot to preview the template as a graph of resources.

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Requirements

Requires cfn-lint to be installed: pip install cfn-lint.

If you want to be able to preview templates as graphs, you also need to install pydot: pip install pydot.

Extension Settings

  • cfnLint.path: path to the cfn-lint command, optionally including parameters as well:

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The code for this plugin can be found on GitHub at awslabs/aws-cfn-lint-visual-studio-code

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