How to get JSON Output from CDK Synth in AWS CDK
Borislav Hadzhiev
Sat Apr 17 2021·1 min read
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Getting JSON Output from CDK Synth #
The cdk synth command outputs the CloudFormation equivalent of our CDK stack
and stores the template as json in the cdk.out directory.
However, the command's output to the terminal is in yaml format.
In order to output JSON from the cdk synth command we have to add the
--json flag.
shell
npx cdk synth --json
Issuing the command on a CDK stack, that consists of a single S3 bucket shows the following output:
Further Reading #
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