CloudFormation Snippets for VS Code

This extension adds snippets for all the AWS CloudFormation resources into Visual Studio Code.

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New in version 4!

• Support for CloudFormation resource type snippets in JSON format! This means you can now generate CloudFormation resource type snippets in both YAML and JSON formats!
  • To get started: Open up a JSON file, type an AWS Resource prefix in the same manner as you do for the YAML snippets and it will show the autocomplete!

Features

1. Supports all resources that are defined by CloudFormation
2. CloudFormation autocompletion for every resource (includes properties) in both YAML and JSON formats.
3. The CloudFormation snippets are automatically updated every week after AWS updates their CloudFormation Resource Specification.
4. Intrinsic functions + conditions are supported.
5. Contains a whole bunch of parameter types.
6. Has builtin support for placeholders. This means you can quickly jump from property to property in each resource by using Tab
7. Every resource type contains the matching documentation URL in its description.
8. Support for Gitpod by publishing this extension to the Open VSX Registry

Usage

• Step 1. Install this extension
• Step 2. create a .yml file to start working on CloudFormation
• Step 3. Check in the bottom right-hand corner of the VS Code editor that the file type is listed as "YAML".
• Step 4. To start with the basic template structure, type cfn to get the YAML formatted template fragment.
• Step 5. Start adding resources in the resource section by using their prefix name e.g. autoscaling-autoscalinggroup equals resource type AWS::AutoScaling::AutoScalingGroup

Note: Once you start typing a prefix (explained in step 5), the corresponding snippet will show up in the dropdown menu. If this doesn't happen automatically, press ctrl + space to invoke IntelliSense and search for the prefix of the resource type that you want to add (as listed in step 5).

AWS CloudFormation Attributes (GetAtt) Cheat Sheet

It can be difficult to find out which attributes are available for each AWS CloudFormation resource type. Therefore I made an AWS CloudFormation Attributes cheat sheet that lists the attributes in a single table overview to easily find the attributes.

Support

If you have a feature request or an issue, please let me know on Github

Contributing

If you want to add more snippets, your contribution is more than welcome!

Review the Contributing Guidelines.

Author

Danny Steenman