Policies

Introduction

Policies allow you enforce certain rules for all the stacks deployed using the given stacktape configuration.
They can be used to enforce organization-level best practices and avoid accidental mistakes.

Policies API reference

allowedStages

List of the stages (environments) this stack can be deployed to.

Type: Array of string

allowedRegions

List of the regions this stack can be deployed to.

Type: Array of string ENUM

Possible values: af-south-1ap-east-1ap-northeast-1ap-northeast-2ap-northeast-3ap-south-1ap-southeast-1ap-southeast-2ca-central-1eu-central-1eu-north-1eu-south-1eu-west-1eu-west-2eu-west-3me-south-1sa-east-1us-east-1us-east-2us-west-1us-west-2

cloudformationStackPolicies

Cloudformation stack policies to be applied to this stack.

Type: Array of CfStackPolicyStatement

Stack policies allow you to restrict specific operations (such as update or delete) to specific resources defined in the stack.
By default, Stacktape creates stack policies that restrict update/delete for databases with deletionProtection enabled.
To learn more about stack policies, refer to AWS docs

Simple policies

allowedStages

The stack can be deployed to only specified stages.


allowedStages: ["production", "staging", "testing", "dev-john", "dev-jane"]

allowedStages

The stack can be deployed to only specified regions.


allowedRegions: ["eu-west-1"]

More policies will be added soon.

Cloudformation stack policies

Stack policies allow you to restrict specific operations (such as update or delete) to specific resources defined in the stack.
By default, Stacktape creates stack policies that restrict update/delete for databases with deletionProtection enabled.
To learn more about stack policies, refer to AWS docs

CfStackPolicyStatement API reference

Parent API reference: Policies

Resource

Required

List of resources that the policy applies to

Type: Array of string

see AWS reference here.

Principal

Required

Principal to whom policy applies to

Type: string "*"

see AWS reference here.

Effect

Effect of the statement

Type: string ENUM

Possible values: AllowDeny

see AWS reference here.

Action

List of actions allowed/denied by the statement

Type: Array of string ENUM

Possible values: Update:*Update:DeleteUpdate:ModifyUpdate:Replace

see AWS reference here.

Condition

No description

Type: UNSPECIFIED