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+**Simple Deploy is in maintenance mode!**
+
+**We will continue to provide support for bug fix requests, however new
+features will not be added.**
+
+It has been a good run, but it has now come to an end. When Simple Deploy was started,
+the [AWS CLI](http://aws.amazon.com/cli/) had minimal Cloud Formation support; that
+is no longer the case. The AWS CLI is mature, well-documented and can be used
+to perform the majority of the Cloud Formation actions provided by Simple Deploy
+and we believe new customers will be better served leveraging it for their Cloud
+Formation stack management.
+
+For the features which Simple Deploy provides that are not available via AWS CLI,
+we have created the following utilities to provide near-like services, to what is
+provided by Simple Deploy, which can be integrated with the AWS CLI.
+
+* [cfn-clone](https://github.com/intuit/cfn-clone) allows for cloning Cloud Formation
+stacks. It will leverage the AWS CLI to read the parameters and template from an existing
+stack. It allows you to override either the template or inputs and create a new stack
+with the updated attirbutes and template.
+
+* [heirloom-url](https://github.com/intuit/heirloom-url) generates URLs that point to resources
+which have been uploaded to Heirloom. This can be coupled with the AWS CLI to update
+the app or chef_repo.
+
+For example, to update the app and chef_repo of a stack, and then kick off a command,
+similiar to the Simple Deploy deploy subcommand, you could use the following bash script.
+
+```
+#!/bin/bash
+
+app_id=$1
+chef_id=$2
+
+app_url=`heirloom-url -bucket-prefix=bp -domain=my-app -encrypted=true -id=$app_id -region=us-west-2`
+chef_url=`heirloom-url -bucket-prefix=bp -domain=my-chef -encrypted=true -id=$chef_id -region=us-west-2`
+
+aws cloudformation update-stack --stack-name my-app-stack \
+ --parameters AppArtifactURL=$app_url,ChefRepoURL=$chef_url
+
+ips=`aws ec2 describe-instances --filter Name=Name,Values=my-app-stack \
+| jq --raw-output '.Reservations[].Instances[].PublicIpAddress'`
+
+for ip in $ips; do
+ ssh ip 'chef-solo -c /var/chef/config/solo.rb -o role[app]’
+done
+```
+
+If you are interested in more efficient SSH parallelization, I would look into one
+of the below tools which could be integrated into the above script.
+
+* [Capistrano](http://capistranorb.com/)
+* [GNU Parallel](http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/)
+
+Overview
+--------
+
Simple Deploy is an opinionated gem that helps manage and perform directed deployments to AWS Cloud Formation Stacks.
Prerequisites
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