使用 Homebrew 安装 cfn-flip

项目链接

• 主页

命令和别名

• cfn-flip

项目历史

The official README explains the name as an homage to the Unix `flip` utility and documents both the `cfn-flip` command and the `cfn_flip` Python package API. The repository metadata records the public repo creation in 2016.

采用历史

The project is packaged for Homebrew as `cfn-flip` and distributed as a Python package. Its README now deprecates CLI usage in favor of `rain fmt`, while explicitly saying the Python API may continue to be used.

使用方式

The documented CLI reads from stdin or files and converts JSON to YAML or YAML to JSON. The Python API exposes `flip`, `to_yaml`, and `to_json` for applications that need CloudFormation template serialization.

为什么软件包爱好者会关心

cfn-flip is significant because it solved a very specific packaging annoyance: CloudFormation users wanted a reliable converter that preserved AWS intrinsic-function syntax instead of treating templates as generic JSON/YAML.

时间线

• 2016: GitHub repository metadata records public repository creation.
• 2021: GitHub release metadata records cfn_flip 1.3.0.
• Current README: CLI usage is deprecated in favor of `rain fmt`; package API remains available.

Related projects

• rain is the recommended replacement for CLI formatting and conversion.
• cf2tf acknowledges cfn-flip as a parser used when converting CloudFormation templates.

来源

• https://api.github.com/repos/awslabs/aws-cfn-template-flip
• https://github.com/awslabs/aws-cfn-template-flip
• https://aws-cloudformation.github.io/rain/rain_fmt.html
• https://github.com/awslabs/aws-cfn-template-flip#readme
• https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/cfn-flip.json