Reuse list of CloudFormation tags

Question

I have a rather complex set of CloudFormation templates that I use for provisioning the different environments of our infrastructure. However I recently got the request to tag t

Answer 1

You can easily reuse tags if you don't pass them to the template but instead reference them during deployment. The tags will be propagated to all ressources of the stack. A command similar to the one below might meet your needs:

aws cloudformation create-stack --stack-name mystack \
--template-body file://my_template.yaml --tags file://my_tags.json

The file my_tags.json is of the format

[
    {"Key": "mytag", "Value": "val"},
    ...
]

Alternatively, you could deploy your stack through CodePipeline and define the tags in the template configuration