How to specify stack creation and rollback timeout?

[BerndWessels]

Very often (especially with CustomResources) Cloudformation fails to create the stack - BUT it takes about 1 hour for Cloudformation to recognize this and then another hour to rollback. This is incredibly frustrating if you try to get things done!

Is there a way to set a timeout to lets say 5 minutes for stack creation and rollback to speed up trial and error development and deployment?

[eladb]

It’s a great idea but sadly unsupported by CloudFormation. We are trying to look for ways to make it easier to author custom resources. For example, a common reason for those to hang the stack is if they don’t submit a response when an exception is thrown. Maybe we can integrate with a framework for custom resources that will make it easier to implement without making those mistakes.

[amoraes]

There is support for timeout in the CloudFormation (see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/cfn-console-add-tags.html) but I can't find how to use this in CDK.
I am interested in this feature as well, waiting that much for a rollback is painful.

[zxkane]

Same here. This feature will be useful when composing CDK and deploying stack for testing.

[zxkane]

Add CF WaitCondition in your stack could configure the timeout of stack,

 const waitHandle = new cfn.CfnWaitConditionHandle(this, 'WaitConditionHandle');
    const waitCondition = new cfn.CfnWaitCondition(this, 'WaitCondition', {
      count: 1,
      handle: waitHandle.ref,
      timeout: '600'
    });
 scope.node.addDependency(waitCondition);

[eladb]

Resolved by #4572

[BerndWessels]

@eladb hello,
I'm not sure if I understand, how it that fixing the issue?
Could you please provide a short example here?
Thanks

[aripalo]

@BerndWessels I was baffled by this too, but after looking at #4572 PR realized I should use Provider from @aws-cdk/custom-resources (instead of cloudformation.CustomResourceProvider).

See: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/api/latest/docs/custom-resources-readme.html#timeouts

[damnhandy]

@eladb this does not address the issue. What folks are really looking for is the CDK equivalent to --timeout-in-minutes that is part of the AWS CLI today. Even if this was something that is set from the CDK CLI that would be more than acceptable.

[antonfelich]

+1 to @damnhandy that's exactly what I'm currently looking for