VS Code CloudFormation Linter uses cfn-lint to lint your CloudFormation templates.
![[cfn-lint logo]](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/awslabs/aws-cfn-lint-visual-studio-code/main/logo.png){kind=logo}
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Uses cfn-lint to parse the template and show problems with it.
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Uses pydot to preview the template as a graph of resources.
Requires cfn-lint to be installed: pip install cfn-lint.
If you want to be able to preview templates as graphs, you also need to install pydot: pip install pydot.
cfnLint.path: path to thecfn-lintcommand, optionally including parameters as well:
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The code for this plugin can be found on GitHub at awslabs/aws-cfn-lint-visual-studio-code