cloudformation-cli

Install command: 
brew install cloudformation-cli

CloudFormation Provider Development Toolkit

https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/cloudformation-cli/

License: Apache-2.0

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/cloudformation-cli.json

Formula code: cloudformation-cli.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon		 tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
sonoma ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 0.2.41
head ⚡️ HEAD

Depends on:

certifi 2026.7.22 Mozilla CA bundle for Python
libyaml 0.2.5 YAML Parser
pydantic 2.13.5 Data validation using Python type hints
python@3.13 3.13.15 Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language

Depends on when building from source:

rust 1.98.1 Safe, concurrent, practical language

Binaries: cfn, cfn-cli

cloudformation java, go, python plugins are installed, but the Go and Java are not bundled with the installation.

Known vulnerabilities in the current version:

GHSA-h35f-9h28-mq5c (medium) setuptools: MANIFEST.in exclusion bypass in sdist via Unicode normalization collision (NFC/NFD) o...

Data from Homebrew/advisory-database. Run brew vulns cloudformation-cli for a live check.

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