Validating cloudFormation templates

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  • cfn-python-lint

    CloudFormation Linter

  • I use cfn-lint for this. Works great in a CI pipeline for example, and goes much further than just checking validity: it also checks all manner of good style etc…

  • cloudformation-guard

    Guard offers a policy-as-code domain-specific language (DSL) to write rules and validate JSON- and YAML-formatted data such as CloudFormation Templates, K8s configurations, and Terraform JSON plans/configurations against those rules. Take this survey to provide feedback about cfn-guard: https://amazonmr.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bpyzpfoYGGuuUl0

  • https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/cloudformation-guard is also very useful, but more so when you want to keep your templates consistent to standards.

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