Deploy to AWS CloudFormation

The AWS CloudFormation action lets you create, update and delete CF stacks on a push to branch, recurrently on a time interval, or manually on a click.

Example pipeline with CloudFormation

Configure pipeline in Buddy

1. Create a new project in Buddy and select your Git provider:

Creating a new project

2. Add a new pipeline and configure the details: name, trigger mode, and branch from which you want to deploy.

Adding a new pipeline

Configure AWS CloudFormation action

1. Look up AWS on the action list and click AWS CloudFormation to add it to the pipeline:

Amazon Web Services actions

2. Within the action, you first select the method you need and provide your CloudFormation stack's details to proceed. There are four methods available:

• Deploy
• Create
• Update
• Delete

AWS CloudFormation method select

3. Once you add the method, you will be able to adjust additional settings available within the action. The action has five configuration tabs in total:

• Run – here you select the AWS integration and provide the deployment command
• Environment – if your process requires specific dependencies, you can install them here. The files will stay cached in the container for future pipeline runs
• Variables – here you can view the variables created by your AWS integration, and create your own if required
• Conditions – here you configure the trigger conditions for which the action will run
• Options – here you define the action's name and behavior on failure and timeout

AWS CloudFormation action configuration

4. When ready, click Add this action to finish configuration.