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Describe recommended way to do context lookups, and an alternative approach we don't recommend but that everyone is asking for.
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| synthesized infrastructure is consistent and repeatable. If you do not commit | ||
| `cdk.context.json`, the results of the lookups may suddenly be different in | ||
| unexpected ways, and even produce results that cannot be deployed or will cause | ||
| data loss. To give an account permissions to perform lookups against an | ||
| environment, without being able to deploy to it and make changes, run | ||
| `cdk bootstrap --trust-for-lookup=<account>`. |
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I mean this is good, but this is buried in the docs. What would be even better would be to warn/error users during build when they don't do this? Especially, checking in cdk.context.json because that will behave in unexpected ways which is worse than erroring.
But of course, I don't know what it would take to automate this in cdk pipelines, so I'll leave it to you.
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I feel right now you need to consciously choose one or the other, if you do nothing the synth will fail. So at least we're not unsafe.
We might be unusable. I will consider your idea to add a warning (though chances that people will read it are slim).
For now, unblocking this merge because I think having this content in is the most important right now.
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Describe recommended way to do context lookups, and an alternative approach we don't recommend but that everyone is asking for. ---- *By submitting this pull request, I confirm that my contribution is made under the terms of the Apache-2.0 license*
Describe recommended way to do context lookups, and an alternative approach we don't recommend but that everyone is asking for. ---- *By submitting this pull request, I confirm that my contribution is made under the terms of the Apache-2.0 license*
Describe recommended way to do context lookups, and an alternative
approach we don't recommend but that everyone is asking for.
By submitting this pull request, I confirm that my contribution is made under the terms of the Apache-2.0 license