Idem describe

The idem describe command lists the resources in a cloud account.

The idem describe command supports state file paths and regular expressions as input. In addition, you can refine output by applying a filter.

State file path as input

The following command returns all AWS S3 buckets in the provided cloud account.

idem describe aws.s3.bucket

Regular expression as input

Any valid regular expression can be used as an input. The following command returns all AWS resources in the provided cloud account.

idem describe "aws.*"

The following command returns all dynamodb and S3 resources in the provided cloud account.

idem describe "aws\.(dynamodb|s3)\..*"

Filtering

To further refine output, you can also add the --filter argument.

The following command only returns automatically named S3 buckets that start with the word production.

idem describe aws.s3.bucket --filter="[?resource[?bucket_prefix=='production']]"