CloudFormation

The CloudFormation phase type configures a pipeline phase to deploy a CloudFormation template

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
type	string	Yes	cloudformation	This must always be cloudformation for the CloudFormation phase type.
name	string	Yes		The value you want to show up in the CodePipeline UI as your phase name.
template_path	string	Yes		The path in your repository to your CloudFormation template.
deploy_role	string	Yes		The role CloudFormation will use to create your role. This role must already exist in your account and must be assumable by CloudFormation.

Secrets

This phase type doesn’t prompt for any secrets when creating the pipeline.

Example Phase Configuration

This snippet of a handel-codepipeline.yml file shows the CloudFormation phase being configured:

version: 1

pipelines:
  dev:
    phases:
    ...
    - type: cloudformation
      name: Deploy
      template_path: cf-stack.yml
      deploy_role: myservicerole
    ...