Review and Clean Up a Change Set
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Recipe · 3 steps
Review and Clean Up a Change Set
with AWS CloudFormation
Create a change set for review and clean it up when it is empty.
- Create a change set diffing the candidate template against the stack's current template.
- Poll DescribeChangeSet until it finishes computing. Branch to cleanup when it failed (typically because there were no changes), or end with the change set intact when real changes are present.
- Delete the empty or failed change set so it does not linger and risk being executed by mistake.
What you'll need to have ready
- stackName: The name or unique ID of the existing stack to review changes for.
- changeSetName: The name to assign to the change set.
- templateBody: The candidate CloudFormation template body to diff against the stack.
- capability: An optional capability to acknowledge (e.g. CAPABILITY_IAM).
For your developer
Arazzo workflow cloudformation:review-change-set, 3 operations: createChangeSet → describeChangeSet → deleteChangeSet. Specs on APIs.io.