AWS SDK for Go Code Examples for AWS CloudFormation

Purpose

This example demonstrates how to perform the following tasks in your default AWS Region using your default credentials:

Create a stack
List your stacks
Delete a stack

Prerequisites

You must have an AWS account, and have your default credentials and AWS Region configured as described in Configuring the AWS SDK for Go in the AWS SDK for Go Developer Guide.

Running the Code

Syntax

go run CfnCodeOps.go [-o all | create | list | delete] [-n stack-name] [-t template-name]

all is the default value.
stack-name is the name of the stack to create or delete.
template-name is the name of the (local) file containing an AWS CloudFormation template.
If you supply -o create, -o delete, -o all, or no o flag (which default to -o add), -n stack-name is required.
If you supply -o create, -o all, or no -o flag (which default to -o add), -t template-name is required.

Notes

We recommend that you grant this code least privilege, or at most the minimum permissions required to perform the task. For more information, see Grant Least Privilege in the AWS Identity and Access Management User Guide.
This code has not been tested in all Regions. Some AWS services are available only in specific Regions.
Running this code might result in charges to your AWS account.

Running the Unit Tests

Unit tests should delete any resources they create. However, they might result in charges to your AWS account.

The unit test gets the name of the template file from the TemplateFile entry in config.json. By default this value is template.json, which creates an Amazon S3 bucket (the policy includes deleting the bucket when the stack is deleted).

The config.json file has one additional member, Debug. If you set it to true, the unit test displays additional log information.

The unit test creates and deletes a stack with a random name. The stack creates one resource, a private AWS S3 bucket in your default Region with a random name.

To run the unit test, enter:

go test

You should see something like the following, where PATH is the path to folder containing the Go files:

PASS
ok      PATH 65.593s

If you want to see any log messages, enter:

go test -test.v

You should see some additional log messages. The last two lines should be similar to the previous output shown.

You can confirm it has deleted any resources it created by running:

go run CfnCrudOps.go -o list | sed /DELETE_COMPLETE/d | grep stack-