Cloudformation YAML Snippets for VS Code

Danny Steenman

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The complete YAML snippet library for Cloudformation based on the AWS CloudFormation Resource Specification
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Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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Cloudformation YAML snippets for VS Code

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A Visual Studio Code extension which contains the complete YAML snippet library for Cloudformation based on the AWS CloudFormation Resource Specification.

Features

You now have access to all available resources provided by AWS CloudFormation Resource Specification in the form of YAML snippets!

Usage

  • Step 1. Install the extension
  • Step 2. create a YAML file for to start working on Cloudformation
  • Step 3. Type cfn to get the basic template in which you can add your resources
  • Step 4. Start adding adding resources by using their prefix name e.g. autoscaling-autoscalinggroup equals resource type AWS::AutoScaling::AutoScalingGroup

Note: Once you start typing resource types, the corresponding snippet will show-up in the drowndown window.

CFN YAML snippet example

Credits

The YAML snippets were generated using the following script: Github

All content of the YAML file has copyright by Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates, and was published under the terms that can be found at https://aws.amazon.com/terms/