How to CDK Deploy Without the Prompt for Approval

# Deploying your CDK Stack without being asked for Approval

By default, when we run the cdk deploy command, the CDK CLI checks whether we have made changes to any IAM statements or security group rules, if that's the case it asks us to confirm the deployment.

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To cdk deploy without being prompted for approval, we have to add the --require-approval flag to the command and set the approval level to never.

shell

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npx aws-cdk deploy --require-approval never

Alternatively, we can set the configuration in the cdk.json file in the root directory of our project.

cdk.json

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{
  "app": "npx ts-node --prefer-ts-exts bin/app.ts",
  "requireApproval": "never",
  "context": {
    // ... rest
  }
}

By setting the --require-approval flag to never, the CDK CLI will not ask us for approval regardless of the changes we make to IAM resources.

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How to CDK Deploy Without the Prompt for Approval

# Deploying your CDK Stack without being asked for Approval

# Additional Resources

Borislav Hadzhiev