What is Lono?
Lono is a CloudFormation framework that that optimizes for infrastructure-as-code happiness. It provides an organized structure, conventions over configurations, keeps your code DRY, and adds convenient tooling. Lono makes working with CloudFormation easier and more fun.
Lono Features
- DSL: Build templates with beautiful code.
- Plan: A Plan or Preview CloudFormation changes before pressing the big red button.
- Layering: Allows you to build multiple environments like dev and prod with the same template.
- Parameters: Write parameters with simple env-like files.
- Variables: Compile down different templates when runtime Parameters do not suffice.
- Helpers: Extend Lono and simplify code like a first-class citizen.
- Configsets: Configuration Management. Configure EC2 instances with reuseable code.
- DRY: Do not repeat yourself. Reuse blueprints.
- Lonofile: Centrally manage blueprints.