Error: Cannot retrieve value from context provider hosted-zone since account/region are not specified at the stack leve

[kbroughton]

🐛 Bug Report

Need more instructions in readme.
First, you need to import modules via npm or yarn.
Then, need to get region and account into context.

What is the problem?

cdk deploy causes errors.

Reproduction Steps

aws-cdk-examples/typescript/static-site> cdk synth -c domain=x.com -c subdomain=y
l. Either configure "env" with explicit account and region when you define your stack, or use the environment variables "CDK_DEFAULT_ACCOUNT" and "CDK_DEFAULT_REGION" to inherit environment information from the CLI (not recommended for production stacks)

I've defined the CDK_ variables in the shell.

Verbose Log

aws-cdk-examples/typescript/static-site/node_modules/@aws-cdk/core/lib/context-provider.js:41
throw new Error(Cannot retrieve value from context provider ${options.provider} since account/region +
^

Error: Cannot retrieve value from context provider hosted-zone since account/region are not specified at the stack level. Either configure "env" with explicit account and region when you define your stack, or use the environment variables "CDK_DEFAULT_ACCOUNT" and "CDK_DEFAULT_REGION" to inherit environment information from the CLI (not recommended for production stacks)
at Function.getValue (/aws-cdk-examples/typescript/static-site/node_modules/@aws-cdk/core/lib/context-provider.js:41:19)
at Function.fromLookup (/aws-cdk-examples/typescript/static-site/node_modules/@aws-cdk/aws-route53/lib/hosted-zone.js:71:49)
at new StaticSite (/aws-cdk-examples/typescript/static-site/static-site.js:21:41)
at new MyStaticSiteStack (/aws-cdk-examples/typescript/static-site/index.js:20:9)
at Object. (~/aws-cdk-examples/typescript/static-site/index.js:27:1)
at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:734:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:745:10)
at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:626:32)
at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:566:12)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:558:3)
Subprocess exited with error 1

Environment

• CDK CLI Version: 1.22.0 (build 309ac1b)
• Example: typescript/static-site
• Example Version: 1.0.0
• OS: OSX Mojave
• Language: TypeScript

Other information

[iamhopaul123]

@kbroughton I think it is because you don't have the default profile in your aws config file. Can you run aws configure to see if it fixes the problem?

[kbroughton]

I do have ~/.aws/config and ~/.aws/credentials [default] blocks defined.

e.g. for config.
[default]
region = us-east-1
output = json

I use the keys regularly. I also tried explicitly setting CDK_ vars on the CLI - no luck.
aws configure does not set a "default account" either.

[iamhopaul123]

Here's the guidance that is relevant to your issue. Does this help solve your issue?

[StraightOuttaCrompton]

I also experienced this issue receiving the message

Cannot retrieve value from context provider hosted-zone since account/region are not specified at the stack level. Either configure "env" with explicit account and region when you define your stack, or use the environment variables "CDK_DEFAULT_ACCOUNT" and "CDK_DEFAULT_REGION" to inherit environment information from the CLI (not recommended for production stacks)

I was puzzled when setting the environment variables and getting the same error. It took me a while to figure out I had to do the following

new MyDevStack(app, 'dev', { 
  env: { 
    account: process.env.CDK_DEFAULT_ACCOUNT, 
    region: process.env.CDK_DEFAULT_REGION 
}});

as outlined in the guidance provided by @iamhopaul123

[SomayaB]

Thanks @iamhopaul123 and @StraightOuttaCrompton! @kbroughton does that solve your issue?

[SomayaB]

Closing this issue since a solution seems to have been found. Feel free to reopen.

[amilnayar92]

@iamhopaul123 I am still facing this issue even after providing the env. This error only happens when i use nested stacks. For normal stack it works fine! Using cdk 1.38.0

[iamhopaul123]

@amilnayar92 can you open another issue and provide more details about the issue you have?

[amilnayar92]

@iamhopaul123 Two issues open with same errors: aws/aws-cdk#5547 and aws/aws-cdk#4651

[iamhopaul123]

@amilnayar92 oh seems like it is a route53 problem. HostedZone.fromLookup just doesn't work for nested stack. We probably are not able to solve it on our end but glad to be informed about the existence of this issue!

[evayde]

@iamhopaul123 You've saved me a quintillion hours of debugging. Thanks.

[dillonharlessCORE]

@amilnayar92 oh seems like it is a route53 problem. HostedZone.fromLookup just doesn't work for nested stack. We probably are not able to solve it on our end but glad to be informed about the existence of this issue!

Really? I feel like this throws a pretty big wrench in the ideal that you can "keep your infrastructure and app code in the same repository", per the AWS CDK best practices document on AWS's website...