# forest-fire [](https://travis-ci.org/toothbrush/forest-fire)
This is a little command-line tool with an ill-advised name, to easily
tear down CloudFormation stacks which have outputs that other stacks
depend on. In the AWS Console this is rather annoying, since you have
to manually chase up dependencies.
This tool simply interrogates the `aws-cli` tool about the stack
you're trying to delete, finds out its outputs, and checks whether any
currently-active stacks are importing them. The output is a
dependency tree, which trivially tells us the order of deletion for it
to succeed. If you're feeling adventurous, you may also let
`forest-fire` do the actual deletion for you.
# Installation
## Prerequisites
You'll need the following installed and available to be able to use
this software:
### [Haskell Stack](https://docs.haskellstack.org/en/stable/README/)
You'll want to install Stack using your local package manager (yes,
it's available on Homebrew as `haskell-stack`), or if you're
adventurous, using their `curl | bash` method...
You'll need to add `~/.local/bin` to your `$PATH`.
### AWS CLI interface
I'm guessing that this is a thing you'll already have.
## Instructions
To download and install the utility, simply run:
```sh
stack install forest-fire
```
# Usage
If you simply run the tool without arguments, it'll print usage
information. Here's the down-low, however.
## Find out what depends on a stack
Note that this performs a **dry run** (read-only). The dependency
tree will be printed, along with the order in which you'd have to
perform deletions, but nothing will be executed.
```sh
forest-fire "kubernetes-dynamic-91acf0ef-lifecycle"
```
## Perform the deletions if you're satisfied with the tree
```sh
forest-fire "kubernetes-dynamic-91acf0ef-lifecycle" --delete
```
# Do you Docker?
Some people don't believe in native executables. For them, i present the Docker version:
```sh
docker container run --rm \
-e AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY \
-e AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID \
-e AWS_DEFAULT_REGION \
paulrb/forest-fire:master yourstack
```
It is hosted on Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/paulrb/forest-fire
and built with Travis CI: https://travis-ci.org/toothbrush/forest-fire
from this repository.
# Credits
Thanks Redbubble, i totally should've been doing other things instead
of shaving this yak.