org-formation-cli

• Fixed bug with variables in CustomDeployCommand for SLS tasks.
• Improved validation and error messages for CustomDeployCommand and CustomRemoveCommand.
• Implemented register-type task that allows for resource provider types to be deployed using org-formation
• Support for .org-formationrc to configure profile, configurationFile, stateBucketName & stateObject options

Read more on the register type task here: https://github.com/org-formation/org-formation-cli/blob/master/docs/task-files.md#register-type
Example on register type (managing Service Quotas using CFN - madness I know 😂): https://github.com/org-formation/org-formation-cli/tree/master/examples/service-quotas
Doc on Runtime Configuration: https://github.com/org-formation/org-formation-cli/blob/master/docs/cli-reference.md#runtime-configuration-org-formationrc

• Increased buffer size for tasks ran on the console (update-sls and update-cdk)
• Fixed bug with OU structures that go three levels deep and/or multiple times the same ou name
• Added Support for !Join expressions in task files
• Fixed bug in Password Policy validation (Thanks Ralf vd Z)
• Added support for --organization-file option on print-stacks command
• Init command adds RootEmail to MasterAccount in generated template (Thanks @craighurley)
• Fixed bug where !CopyValue causes process to hang
• CDK will have CDK_DEPLOY_ACCOUNT and CDK_DEPLOY_REGION env variables set (Thanks @rehos)

Probably even better than all of the above... we started creating a repository of AWS Resource Providers (https://github.com/org-formation/aws-resource-providers). Stay tuned.. org-formation <3 Resource Providers

• Fixed issue where perform-task parameters are passed to update-stacks task when no parameters where specified on task.
• Fixed issue managing state for plugins (copy-to-s3, update-cdk, update-serverless) that would be included with the same logical name.
• Allow update-organization task to be skipped without skipping all other tasks in file
• Allow Skip task to be overwritten in dependent tasks
• Force deployment of tasks by setting ForceDeploy attribute to true on command line, include task or task
• Override verbose logging of tasks by setting LogVerbose attribute to true on include task or task
• Have CodePipeline created by init-pipeline command 'poll for updates'
• Allow for custom OrganizationAccountAccessRole name per Account or per OrganizationRoot
• Added --cross-account-role-name flag to init and init-pipeline commands to initialize organizations that use a different name for the cross account access role.
• Fixed a bug that caused support level (e.g. enterprise) to not be updated when account got create with a support level attribute
• Improved suggestions on how to clean up resources removed from task file (added options like --profile)
• Fixed an issue where perform tasks threw a circular dependency error but instead the graph for failed tasks was too long.

This release adds a number of great features around variable substitutions in tasks files and parameter support:

• Added StackPolicy attribute to update-stacks tasks
• Added UpdateProtection attribute to update-stacks tasks and update stacks command.
• Added Skip attribute to any task (will skip task execution but continue, also with dependent tasks)
• Improved logging
• Added Parameter support to tasks file:
  -- Parameters can be declared in Parameters section
  -- Parameters can be used in !Ref and !Sub or as part of other expressions
• Added !CopyValue function to tasks file which can be used to reference to a stacks output.
• Added parameter support to CDK tasks
• Added parameter support to SLS tasks
• Improved profile configuration support.

• Added update-cdk task type to perform-tasks to support deployment of cdk workloads
• Added update-serverless.com task type to perform-tasks to support deployment of serverless.com workloads
• Added copy-to-s3 task type to perform-tasks to support uploading files to S3 as part of a build pipeline
• Added --organization-file to perform-tasks and validate-tasks command, can be used to specify the organization to be used when evaluating bindings (without having an update-organization task)
• Added TaskRoleName to update-stacks, update-serverless.com & copy-to-s3 tasks to support custom role for cross account access
• Added CloudFormationRoleName to update-stacks to pass specific role to CloudFormation