cform

A sublime plugin for CloudFormation

Setup

To use, cd to your Sublime Text 2/Packages/User dir and clone this repo. The location of the User Packages directory for various operating systems is: http://docs.sublimetext.info/en/latest/basic_concepts.html#the-data-directory .

To remove, simply rm -rf the cform directory that was created by the clone.

Use

1. Open a new file in Sublime
2. Set the file type to Cloudformation
3. Type start - a CloudFormation template scaffold will appear
4. Under each section, type the thing you're trying to make (eg, parameter, output, etc) and it will populate the text for you.
5. Tab through the different fields and fill in your values
6. Save it with the extension cform, template or cloudformation and run it through the CloudFormation console
7. Profit