Pipelines: Pipeline Creation Fails at Creating BucketEncryptionKeyAlias When SSM Parameter is Not Found

❓ Pipeline Creation Fails at Creating BucketEncryptionKeyAlias When SSM Parameter is Not Found

The Question

I have a project with a CdkPipeline that was failing to deploy when creating a BucketEncryptionKeyAlias. There was no description of why it was failing and I could only find this related issue that recommended passing an existing Pipeline with an explicit bucket/encryption key to the CdkPipeline.

It turned out that the cause of the failure was that I was passing an oauthToken coming from a SecretValue.secretsManager to the GitHubSourceAction used as the sourceAction for the CdkPipeline and the secretId had a typo so it didn’t actually exist in SSM. Once I fixed the typo I was able to successfully deploy the pipeline.

I think there should have been an easier-to-understand failure message here.

Environment

• CDK CLI Version: 1.123.0 (build fad855e)
• Module Version: 1.123.0
• Node.js Version: v16.3.0
• OS: macOS Catalina
• Language (Version): TypeScript (3.8.3)

Other information

My pipeline code:

const pipeline = new CdkPipeline(this, xxxxx, {
      pipelineName: xxxxx,
      cloudAssemblyArtifact,
      // Action that pulls the code from GitHub
      sourceAction: new GitHubSourceAction({
        actionName: 'GitHub',
        output: sourceArtifact,
        oauthToken: SecretValue.secretsManager(xxxxx, {
          jsonField: xxxxx,
        }),
        owner: xxxxx,
        repo: xxxxx,
        branch: xxxxx,
      }),
      // Action that runs the build commands and translates the code into a CloudFormation template
      // which is used to create the service
      synthAction: new SimpleSynthAction({
        sourceArtifact,
        cloudAssemblyArtifact,
        installCommands: ['npm install', 'npm install -g aws-cdk ts-node'],
        buildCommands: ['npm run build', 'npm run test'],
        synthCommand: 'cdk synth',
      }),
    });

[peterwoodworth]

I’ve created a ticket for this (V472444572), so I’m going to close the issue as this is in the hands of cloudformation now. Thanks again for reporting this!

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