Ability to follow CloudFormation stack update/create events.

[taraspos]

Would be nice to have to command something like:

awless show stack-events --follow stack=<stack_name>

Use case:
Using awless to deploy CloudFormation templates with CI and be able to keep track of the events.

[simcap]

Good idea indeed, and awless always try to be CI friendly!

As you have noticed rightly stack-events have an event/log nature (i.e. timelined, transient & contextualized text info) and the list or show command are not well suited for that. This would mean also that stack-events would be stored in your synced/local cloud model which would not be ideal.

So for this type of objects we are more thinking in terms of a dedicated awless {stream,tail} and actually we already implemented it to tail events from the CLI as a proof of concept but so far it is hidden in awless(type awless tail -h to reveal usage).

So the case of stack-events this command would allow:

awless tail stack-events --ref MY_STACK_ID

So we might move in that direction (instead of augmenting the show command).

[taraspos]

Example of some Go tool for deployment of CloudFormation stacks:
https://github.com/capitalone/stack-deployment-tool

@fxaguessy @simcap do you practice assignment of people to the issue?

Maybe I will have some spare time to work on this, I just want to know if somebody working on it before begin.

[simcap]

@trane9991 Thanks for stack deployment tool link!

We do not really assign yet. Basically we have to implement a tailer (see tailers dir ). Tailers are still experimental but comes in handy and we do use them.

Do not hesitate to take a stab at it with a PR. If we do the implementation on our side we will try to remember to assign ourselves to this issue.