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Senza is a command line tool that enables you to generate and execute `AWS CloudFormation`_ templates in a sane, simple way. With Senza, you can write JSON documents and reuse common application stack solutions such as load balancing, auto-scaling, IAM role management, and other configurations. Senza also provides base CloudFormation templates for web applications, background applications, PostgreSQL, `Redis`_ clusters, and Amazon `ElastiCache`_ stack types.
Senza is a command line tool that enables you to generate and execute
`AWS CloudFormation`_ templates in a sane, simple way. With Senza, you
can write YAML documents and reuse common application stack solutions
such as load balancing, auto-scaling, IAM role management, and other
configurations. Senza also provides base CloudFormation templates for
web applications, background applications, PostgreSQL, `Redis`_
clusters, and Amazon `ElastiCache`_ stack types.


What Senza Solves
=========
=================

AWS CloudFormation is great for managing immutable stacks on
AWS. However, writing CloudFormation templates in JSON format is not
human-friendly, which hinders developer productivity. Also many parts
of a CloudFormation template are reusable among applications of the
same kind. Senza addresses this problem by supporting CloudFormation
templates as YAML input and adding its own 'components' on
top. Components are predefined, easily configurable CloudFormation
snippets that generate all the boilerplate JSON that CloudFormation
requires.

AWS CloudFormation is great for managing immutable stacks on AWS. Many parts of a CloudFormation template are reusable among applications of the same kind. However, writing CloudFormation templates in JSON format is not human-friendly, which hinders developer productivity and consistency among deployed stacks. Senza addresses this problem by supporting CloudFormation templates as YAML input and adding its own 'components' on top. Components are predefined, easily configurable CloudFormation snippets that generate all the boilerplate JSON that CloudFormation requires.

Installation
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See the `STUPS.io documentation on Senza`_ for details.

.. _STUPS.io documentation on Senza: http://stups.readthedocs.org/en/latest/components/senza.html
.. _STUPS.io documentation on Senza: http://stups.readthedocs.io/en/latest/components/senza.html

Unit Tests
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