AWS CLI CloudFormation Cheat Sheet/Deploy without failing on empty change set

Treat no-op deployments as success.

Section: Packaging and Artifact Flows

Deploy without failing on empty change set

bash
bash
aws cloudformation deploy --stack-name app-prod --template-file packaged.yaml --no-fail-on-empty-changeset
Explanation

Convenient in pipelines where idempotent deploys are expected.

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