# Humidifier - CloudFormation made easier

DevFeed: [Humidifier - CloudFormation made easier](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/humidifier-cloudformation-made-easier-28627.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://eng.localytics.com/humidifier-cloudformation-made-easier/>)

Author: Kevin Deisz

Published: 2016-06-20T17:19:11Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Localytics](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/localytics.md>)

Topics: [AWS CloudFormation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws-cloudformation.md>), [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>), [Ruby](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ruby.md>), [Provisioning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/provisioning.md>), [JSON](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/json.md>), [Terraform](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/terraform.md>)

Tags: [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [aws-cloudformation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws-cloudformation.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [json](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/json.md>), [provisioning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/provisioning.md>), [ruby](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ruby.md>), [terraform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/terraform.md>)

## AI overview

Localytics open-sources Humidifier, a Ruby gem that generates programmatic objects for AWS CloudFormation resources. It abstracts JSON manipulation, generates Ruby classes from CloudFormation specifications, and supports maintaining and deploying CloudFormation stacks and change sets.

## Source excerpt

Today we are open-sourcing Humidifier - one of the tools that we use internally to manage infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS) at Localytics. This Ruby gem allows you to programmatically generate domain objects that represent the AWS CloudFormation (CFN) resources you want, handling the details of JSON manipulation under