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Update Generated Template

cloudformation_update_generated_template R Documentation

Updates a generated template

Description

Updates a generated template. This can be used to change the name, add and remove resources, refresh resources, and change the DeletionPolicy and UpdateReplacePolicy settings. You can check the status of the update to the generated template using the describe_generated_template API action.

Usage

cloudformation_update_generated_template(GeneratedTemplateName,
  NewGeneratedTemplateName, AddResources, RemoveResources,
  RefreshAllResources, TemplateConfiguration)

Arguments

GeneratedTemplateName

[required] The name or Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of a generated template.

NewGeneratedTemplateName

An optional new name to assign to the generated template.

AddResources

An optional list of resources to be added to the generated template.

RemoveResources

A list of logical ids for resources to remove from the generated template.

RefreshAllResources

If true, update the resource properties in the generated template with their current live state. This feature is useful when the resource properties in your generated a template does not reflect the live state of the resource properties. This happens when a user update the resource properties after generating a template.

TemplateConfiguration

The configuration details of the generated template, including the DeletionPolicy and UpdateReplacePolicy.

Value

A list with the following syntax:

list(
  GeneratedTemplateId = "string"
)

Request syntax

svc$update_generated_template(
  GeneratedTemplateName = "string",
  NewGeneratedTemplateName = "string",
  AddResources = list(
    list(
      ResourceType = "string",
      LogicalResourceId = "string",
      ResourceIdentifier = list(
        "string"
      )
    )
  ),
  RemoveResources = list(
    "string"
  ),
  RefreshAllResources = TRUE|FALSE,
  TemplateConfiguration = list(
    DeletionPolicy = "DELETE"|"RETAIN",
    UpdateReplacePolicy = "DELETE"|"RETAIN"
  )
)

Examples

## Not run: 
# This example updates a generated template with a new name.
svc$update_generated_template(
  GeneratedTemplateName = "JazzyTemplate",
  NewGeneratedTemplateName = "JazzierTemplate"
)

# This example removes resources from a generated template
svc$update_generated_template(
  GeneratedTemplateName = "JazzyTemplate",
  RemoveResources = list(
    "LogicalResourceId1",
    "LogicalResourceId2"
  )
)

# This example adds resources to a generated template
svc$update_generated_template(
  AddResources = list(
    list(
      ResourceIdentifier = list(
        BucketName = "jazz-bucket"
      ),
      ResourceType = "AWS::S3::Bucket"
    ),
    list(
      ResourceIdentifier = list(
        DhcpOptionsId = "random-id123"
      ),
      ResourceType = "AWS::EC2::DHCPOptions"
    )
  ),
  GeneratedTemplateName = "JazzyTemplate"
)

## End(Not run)