Aws-cdk: Allow drift detection

[gaffo]

There doesn't see to be a way to enable drift detection in CDK.

[rix0rrr]

Do you mean, start a drift detection action on a stack?

That's right, that feature is not built into the CDK. We could conceivably add a cdk drift command to perform a drift detection cycle, but there would not be a lot of advantage over making the CloudFormation call directly.

[gaffo]

My thought was more to fix the stack or the drift. not sure whta the plans
are with aws on drift fixing.

On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 10:14 AM Rico Huijbers [e-mail]
wrote:

Do you mean, start a drift detection action on a stack?

That's right, that feature is not built into the CDK. We could conceivably
add a cdk drift command to perform a drift detection cycle, but there
would not be a lot of advantage over making the CloudFormation call
directly.

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[rix0rrr]

Please take this up with CloudFormation if you have any requests regarding keeping reality in sync with the template on a continuous basis.

CDK will get your application model to CloudFormation. CloudFormation will get your application model to reality, and do any and all of the work to keep it there.

[bpcrao]

I think this is much needed feature

I wont be able to see the Diff of "AWS INFRA" compared with my "Stack template"
since after CDK deploy some one can modify things from AWS Console

[shivlaks]

@bpcrao As @rix0rrr mentioned earlier, the implementation would be to potentially add a cdk drift command, but it would still ultimately be CloudFormation that will compare templated resources against actual resources.

Although CloudFormation supports drift detection, it's limited to these resources. There is a lot of surface area that is still not covered by CloudFormation drift detection

[Juberstine]

@shivlaks Is correct but I'd still like to see this feature added.

[daisuke-yoshimoto]

@shivlaks @rix0rrr

Are there any updates to this issue? It would be great if it could be completed within the cdk toolchain like cdk diff.