We at HexLabs have just released an open source library called

KloudFormation

that turns AWS CloudFormation into a type safe Kotlin DSL. You can build any AWS resource using the library as it's a one to one match for CloudFormation There's loads more to come as we are building it to be modular. As an example we built https://github.com/hexlabsio/kloudformation-serverless-module to help with AWS Lambda. Check it out and let us know what you think. Website and documentation can be found here: https://kloudformation.hexlabs.io/

Did you have a look at the AWS CDK? Building Infrastructure as Code with Kotlin upon its Java API is super simple, and the advanced features the CDK provides (such as a diff tool) make me never want to go back to CloudFormation. https://github.com/awslabs/aws-cdk/

yes this was announced last year while we were building KloudFormation, i think its fantastic. The benefits of KloudFormation come from its direct mapping to CloudFormation making it easy if you already know how to write CloudFormation then its a short step to KloudFormation. Also you have the ability to build your own reusable modules on top that anyone can include in their projects

that go me thinking to create a dsl to replace the yaml of kubectl 🙂