Create and cloudformation stack and wait for it to complete.

create_cfn_stack.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

STACK_NAME=$1
STACK_PATH=$2

if [ -z "$1" ]
  then
    echo "No STACK_NAME argument supplied"
    exit 1
fi

if [ -z "$2" ]
  then
    echo "No STACK_PATH argument supplied"
    exit 1
fi

STACK_DIR="$(dirname ${STACK_PATH})"
STACK_TMPL="$(basename ${STACK_PATH})"

echo "Creating stack..."
STACK_ID=$( \
  aws cloudformation create-stack \
  --stack-name ${STACK_NAME} \
  --template-body file://${STACK_PATH} \
  --capabilities CAPABILITY_IAM \
  --parameters file://${STACK_DIR}/parameters.json \
  --tags file://${STACK_DIR}/tags.json \
  | jq -r .StackId \
)

echo "Waiting on ${STACK_ID} create completion..."
aws cloudformation wait stack-create-complete --stack-name ${STACK_ID}
aws cloudformation describe-stacks --stack-name ${STACK_ID} | jq .Stacks[0].Outputs

update_cfn_stack.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

STACK_NAME=$1
STACK_PATH=$2

if [ -z "$1" ]
  then
    echo "No STACK_NAME argument supplied"
    exit 1
fi

if [ -z "$2" ]
  then
    echo "No STACK_PATH argument supplied"
    exit 1
fi

STACK_DIR="$(dirname ${STACK_PATH})"
STACK_TMPL="$(basename ${STACK_PATH})"

echo "Updating stack..."
STACK_ID=$( \
  aws cloudformation update-stack \
  --stack-name ${STACK_NAME} \
  --template-body file://${STACK_PATH} \
  --capabilities CAPABILITY_IAM \
  --parameters file://${STACK_DIR}/parameters.json \
  --tags file://${STACK_DIR}/tags.json \
  | jq -r .StackId \
)

echo "Waiting on ${STACK_ID} to update..."
aws cloudformation wait stack-update-complete --stack-name ${STACK_ID}
aws cloudformation describe-stacks --stack-name ${STACK_ID} | jq .Stacks[0].Outputs

This is how I set them up.

cp create_cfn_stack.sh ~/.local/bin/create_cfn_stack
chmod u+x ~/.local/bin/create_cfn_stack

Use:

create_cfn_stack my-stack-name path/to/my/cloudformation/stack.yml 

Note you need the jq library for this script to run. brew install jq