# cfn-format mit Homebrew installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für cfn-format in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:cfn-format
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install cfn-format
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:cfn-format
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Paketmanager-Seite:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/cfn-format>
- **Version:** 1.24.4
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Command-line tool for formatting AWS CloudFormation templates
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/rain>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/rain>
- **Lizenz:** Apache-2.0
- **Quellarchiv:** <https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/rain/archive/refs/tags/v1.24.4.tar.gz>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-25T14:20:49-04:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00

## Executables

- cfn-format (cli)
- cfn-format (Alias)

## Build-Abhängigkeiten

- go

## Installationsverhalten

- Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert
- Bottle: verfügbar auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-04
- Manager-Version: 1.24.4
- Manager aktualisiert: 2026-07-25
- lokale Daten: OK
- Upstream-Repository: https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/rain
- neueste erkannte Version: v1.24.4 (aktuell)
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

cfn-format is the Homebrew-packaged command built from the AWS CloudFormation rain repository's `cmd/cfn-format`, focused on checking and formatting AWS CloudFormation templates.

### Projektgeschichte

The upstream rain repository was created in 2019 and describes rain as a development workflow tool for AWS CloudFormation templates and stacks. Its README lists consistent formatting of CloudFormation templates as a key feature of `rain fmt`, including JSON/YAML conversion and YAML comment preservation.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Homebrew packages `cfn-format` separately from rain, building the `./cmd/cfn-format` target from the rain source repository. This gives package users a narrower formatter binary without installing the broader rain workflow CLI name.

### Wie es verwendet wird

The Homebrew formula test runs `cfn-format -v test.template` and expects a formatted-ok message. The rain README documents the broader formatter behavior under `rain fmt`.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

cfn-format is package-nerd-interesting because it exposes one subcommand-sized slice of a larger CloudFormation workflow tool as its own formula, the kind of tiny binary split that helps scripts depend on exactly the formatter they need.

### Zeitleiste

- 2019: rain GitHub repository metadata records public repository creation.
- 2019: GitHub release metadata records rain v0.1.0.
- 2026: Homebrew formula builds cfn-format from rain v1.24.4.

### Related projects

- rain is the upstream project and broader CloudFormation workflow CLI.
- cfn-flip is the older AWS Labs converter whose CLI usage now points users to `rain fmt`.

### Quellen

- <https://api.github.com/repos/aws-cloudformation/rain>
- <https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/rain>
- <https://aws-cloudformation.github.io/rain/rain_fmt.html>
- <https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/rain#readme>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/cfn-format.json>


## Sicherheitshinweise

infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** orange / mittel
- infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal

## Details aus der Quelldatenbank

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** cfn-format
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Head Version:** HEAD
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** head, stable


## Verwandte Links

- [Cloud CLI packages](https://pkg.so/de/cloud-clis/) - Belongs to a cloud or infrastructure command family.
- [Source-control packages](https://pkg.so/de/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family.
- [Secret-risk packages](https://pkg.so/de/secret-risk-packages/) - Has protected-tool coverage, approval-gate, or non-low Geiger security signals.
- [Terminal utility packages](https://pkg.so/de/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata.
- [go](https://pkg.so/de/brew/go/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [rain](https://pkg.so/de/brew/rain/) - Shares the same upstream source repository.
- [aws-console](https://pkg.so/de/brew/aws-console/) - Shares the same upstream source repository.
- [cfn-flip](https://pkg.so/de/brew/cfn-flip/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: aws, cli, cloud-infrastructure, cloudformation.
- [cfn-lint](https://pkg.so/de/brew/cfn-lint/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: aws, cli, cloud-infrastructure, cloudformation, infrastructure-as-code.
- [aws-cdk](https://pkg.so/de/brew/aws-cdk/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: aws, cli, cloud-infrastructure, cloudformation, infrastructure-as-code.
- [cloudformation-cli](https://pkg.so/de/brew/cloudformation-cli/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: aws, cli, cloud-infrastructure, cloudformation, infrastructure-as-code.
- [cf2tf](https://pkg.so/de/brew/cf2tf/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: aws, cli, cloud-infrastructure, cloudformation, infrastructure-as-code.
- [sceptre](https://pkg.so/de/brew/sceptre/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: aws, cli, cloud-infrastructure, cloudformation, infrastructure-as-code.
- [org-formation](https://pkg.so/de/brew/org-formation/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: aws, cli, cloud-infrastructure, cloudformation, infrastructure-as-code.

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/cfn-format.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/cfn-format.yml)


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- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- package-page enrichment
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
