Cannot retrieve value from context provider vpc-provider since account/region are not specified at the stack level

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• What is the current behavior? When trying to use ec2.Vpc.fromLookup, and passing { env: { region: “your-region”, account: “your-account-id”} } I get and error when doing cdk list: Cannot retrieve value from context provider vpc-provider since account/region are not specified at the stack level Link to code: https://gist.github.com/mrcustard/828242e3e5b8786776fd0c78d1e74e63

• What is the expected behavior (or behavior of feature suggested)? I would expect to be able to lookup the vpc and get ec2.IVPc returned

• Please tell us about your environment:

  • CDK CLI Version: 0.36.0 (build 6d38487)
  • Module Version: 0.36.0
  • OS: OSX Mojave
  • Language: TypeScript

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[jimmyhmiller]

In case someone runs into this problem and made the same mistake as me. (@niels1voo it looks like you might have). I had been constructing my own stack and properly passing in the env. But I used the boilerplate and it had its own stack in bin/project-name.ts that was making a stack. I didn’t realize that. Instead of making my own stack, I edited that one to include an environment. That made everything work.

[hoegertn]

@kaihendry you do not have to set these variables. They are set by CDK but you have to use them in den StackProps.

{
	env: {
		account: process.env.CDK_DEFAULT_ACCOUNT,
		region: process.env.CDK_DEFAULT_REGION,
	},
}