How to deploy stage from client directly ?

[maximelebastard]

Hello,

I have a CDK app with a Pipelines stack that works well for staging and production environments (it creates a CodePipeline triggered by GitHub).

But us developers also deploy the application stacks directly from our computers, using cdk deploy --all.
The app is made of several stacks with dependencies (Data, Auth, Services...), joined together in a Stage.

Is there anyway I can do that:

const app = new cdk.App();
new PipelinesStack(app, 'PipelinesStack', {});
new MyApplicationStage(app, 'MyApplicationStage');

and then

cdk deploy PipelinesStack

if I want to deploy the pipelines for staging and production

cdk deploy MyApplicationStage

if I'm working on my app and I just want to update my development backend

Currently, I have the error This app contains no stacks (which makes sense).

[skinny85]

Hi @maximelebastard,

yes, we are aware of this usability problem. We're tracking it here: #8676.

Thanks,
Adam

[maximelebastard]

Thanks for your answer Adam

[cmani97]

Hi, What is the solution for the error This app contains no stacks. Even I run the cdk synth or cdk synth it's giving the same error. When I run the cdk -a cdk.out/stage-stage deploy command it's giving 'cdk.out' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. What is the problem?.(I'm using windows.)

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