‼️ `cdk deploy --exclusively` (`-e`) no longer working in 2.38.0

Status: RESOLVED in 2.38.1

Overview:

The --exclusively flag does not work with the v2.38.0 release.

When the --exclusively flag is used to select stacks with dependencies, instead no stacks are deployed at all and the deployment silently no-ops.

Solution:

Upgrade to 2.38.1

Workaround:

Do not upgrade to 2.38.0, downgrade if necessary

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Describe the bug

Upgraded to aws-cdk v 2.38.0 today and noticed that deploying with the --exclusively flag no longer works. My aws pipelines also stopped working since i was installing the latest cdk version in the buildspecs.

This is a command that works with v 2.37.1

cdk deploy StaticAssetDeploymentStack -e

However, after upgrading to 2.38.0, it stops automatically after the synthesis.

The logs show

Synthesis time: 3.53s

then nothing else.

If i remove the -e flags, it works as expected, but will of course deploy dependencies first.

Expected Behavior

the -e flag should deploy the stack without dependencies

Current Behavior

it stops automatically after synthesis and the stack is not deployed.

Reproduction Steps

this is a sample stack. But the issue is not unique to this stack. I have others that fail as well

import * as cdk from "aws-cdk-lib";
import * as path from "path";
import * as s3deploy from "aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-deployment";

import { Bucket } from "aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3";
import { Construct } from "constructs";
import { Distribution } from "aws-cdk-lib/aws-cloudfront";

export interface StaticAssetDeploymentStackProps {
  staticAssetBucket: Bucket;
  distribution: Distribution;
  env:any;
}

export class StaticAssetDeploymentStack extends cdk.Stack {
  constructor(
    scope: Construct,
    id: string,
    props: StaticAssetDeploymentStackProps,
  ) {
    super(scope, id, props);

    new s3deploy.BucketDeployment(this, "deployWeb", {
      sources: [
        s3deploy.Source.asset(
          path.join(__dirname, "..", "testApp", "dist")
        ),
      ],
      destinationBucket: props.staticAssetBucket,
      distribution: props.distribution,
      distributionPaths: ["/*"],
      memoryLimit: 512,
    });
  }
}

Possible Solution

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Additional Information/Context

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CDK CLI Version

2.7.20

Framework Version

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Node.js Version

16.17.0

OS

macOs Monterey

Language

Typescript

Language Version

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Other information

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[mrgrain]

@mrdanp @urikkiru Thanks for raising this. We are aware of the issue now.

[rix0rrr]

I cannot reproduce with a trivial stack deployment, so more must be going on:

$ npx cdk deploy -e Testv2Stack

✨  Synthesis time: 4.7s

Testv2Stack: deploying...
[0%] start: Publishing 3e2638471f1b391751079818580e441eedaf798e08616812081d086d8d4561b8:current_account-current_region
[100%] success: Published 3e2638471f1b391751079818580e441eedaf798e08616812081d086d8d4561b8:current_account-current_region
Testv2Stack: creating CloudFormation changeset...

• Does it fail exclusively in CI/CD deployments?
• Does it only fail for stacks with dependencies? confirmed only happens for stacks with dependencies