Using cloudformation is great, it gives you insane super powers but there are some small things that annoy me when using it in pipelines. My biggest issue is that it is not displaying the steps it takes in kind of real time’ish to stdout, so that’s where the following snippet will help.
The code What the output looks like [ { "StackId": "arn:aws:cloudformation:eu-west-1:368341477005:stack/tech-blog/2b819be0-28fe-11ea-8ab3-06e58f87e324", "EventId": "5816a850-3333-11ea-83e6-02bbe9b74d60", "StackName": "tech-blog", "LogicalResourceId": "tech-blog", "PhysicalResourceId": "arn:aws:cloudformation:eu-west-1:368341477005:stack/tech-blog/2b819be0-28fe-11ea-8ab3-06e58f87e324", "ResourceType": "AWS::CloudFormation::Stack", "Timestamp": "2020-01-09T22:57:00.