Repeatable

[daneroo]

I may well be doing something wrong,
but I cannot invoke the Stack creation twice with the same name.

That is:

• I bring up the stack (Using the Launch Stack button)
• Then completely delete it.
• I can then Launch an identical stack but not if I re-use the same Stack Name.

I can't for the life of me find any dangling resources which may still be present.
This is the error message in the Cloudformation Events tab:

19:35:28 UTC-0400   ROLLBACK_IN_PROGRESS    AWS::CloudFormation::Stack  RefTest The following resource(s) failed to create: [ALB, ECS]. . Rollback requested by user.

Any Ideas?

[cloudoperator]

I am facing the same issue! Be nice to know what the issue is.

[JustinPlute]

+1

[daneroo]

I have managed to work around the problem for now,

• After cloning the s3 bucket to experiment
• Provisioning with aws cloudformation [create|update|delete]-stack, with explicit:
  • --role-arn w/ Admin privileges, as well as
  • --capabilities CAPABILITY_IAM CAPABILITY_NAMED_IAM

But the clincher seems to be removing the infrastructure.yml::ECSCluster CusterName property

ECSCluster:
    Type: AWS::ECS::Cluster
    # Here be dragons, this is causing stack failures on update, or re-provisioning after delete.
    # Properties:
    #     ClusterName: !Ref EnvironmentName

This is not ideal because the Cluster Name is no longer predictable, and is harder to use from my evolving, but independant deploy scripts...

[PaulMaddox]

Thank you for reporting this. You are correct that this is related to the ClusterName parameter. The ECS/CloudFormation teams are aware and working on a fix.

[kalpik]

Any updates on how it's going? :)

[PaulMaddox]

Thanks again for reporting this. I believe this has now been resolved by the CloudFormation team.

I have tested by:

1. Deploying the stack to us-east-2 (Ohio)
2. Deleting the whole stack
3. Deploying the stack again, with the same stack name (successfully)

If you're still having problems, please re-open this issue.

[stevenlafl]

Same exact problem, newest version of this repository.