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Provision a Stack

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Recipe · 4 steps

Provision a Stack

with AWS CloudFormation · IT Infrastructure Management

Validate a template and provision a CloudFormation stack to completion.

  1. Validate the template body before any resources are created so structural or reference errors are surfaced up front.
  2. Create the stack from the validated template. After this call returns the stack creation has started and can be polled via DescribeStacks.
  3. Poll DescribeStacks until the stack settles. Branch to listing resources when CREATE_COMPLETE is reached, or to a failure end on a rollback or failed terminal state.
  4. List the resources CloudFormation provisioned for the completed stack.
What you'll need to have ready
  • stackName: The name to assign to the new stack. Unique within the region.
  • templateBody: The CloudFormation template body (JSON or YAML) to provision.
  • capability: An optional capability to acknowledge (e.g. CAPABILITY_IAM).
For your developer

Arazzo workflow cloudformation:provision-stack, 4 operations: validateTemplate → createStack → describeStacks → listStackResources. Specs on APIs.io.

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