Breaking aws-deployment-framework-pipelines

[Nr18]

Due to the following issue:

• fix(cli): breaks due to faulty version of colors aws/aws-cdk#18324
• fix(cli): breaks due to faulty version of colors (#18324) aws/aws-cdk#18328

Your aws-deployment-framework-pipelines pipeline might be impacted. The reason for this is because the CDK version is pinned to a specific version.

For example the buildspec from 3.0.6 is

version: 0.2
phases:
  install:
    runtime-versions:
      python: 3.7
      nodejs: 10
  pre_build:
    commands:
      - npm install cdk@1.32 -g -y --quiet --no-progress
      - aws s3 cp s3://$SHARED_MODULES_BUCKET/adf-build/ ./adf-build/ --recursive --quiet
      - pip install -r adf-build/requirements.txt -q -t ./adf-build
  build:
    commands:
      - cdk --version
      - chmod 755 adf-build/cdk/execute_pipeline_stacks.py adf-build/cdk/generate_pipeline_inputs.py adf-build/cdk/generate_pipeline_stacks.py
      - python adf-build/cdk/generate_pipeline_inputs.py
      - cdk synth --app adf-build/cdk/generate_pipeline_stacks.py 1> /dev/null
      - python adf-build/cdk/execute_pipeline_stacks.py

The current version uses:

version: 0.2
  phases:
    install:
      runtime-versions:
        python: 3.9
        nodejs: 12
    pre_build:
      commands:
        - npm install cdk@1.137 -g -y --quiet --no-progress
        - aws s3 cp s3://$SHARED_MODULES_BUCKET/adf-build/ ./adf-build/ --recursive --quiet
        - pip install -r adf-build/requirements.txt -q -t ./adf-build
    build:
      commands:
        - cdk --version
        - chmod 755 adf-build/cdk/execute_pipeline_stacks.py adf-build/cdk/generate_pipeline_inputs.py adf-build/cdk/generate_pipeline_stacks.py adf-build/cdk/clean_pipelines.py
        - python adf-build/cdk/generate_pipeline_inputs.py
        - cdk synth --no-version-reporting --app adf-build/cdk/generate_pipeline_stacks.py 1> /dev/null
        - python adf-build/cdk/execute_pipeline_stacks.py
    post_build:
      commands:
        - python adf-build/cdk/clean_pipelines.py

Workaround

By changing the version from 1.32 or 1.137 to 2.5.0 manually would "fix" the pipeline again.

(Proposed) Solution

Bump the version to 2.5.0 in the buildspec

[Nr18]

@sbkok my suggestion would be to use 2.5.0 in the next release. What do you think?

[sbkok]

NPM seems to have removed the broken releases of the colors library that CDK depends on.
So for the time being we don't need to fix this on our side.

See https://www.npmjs.com/package/colors.
Latest version reported there is 1.4.0. Which is the last stable release of colors.

For anyone seeing/experiencing this issue, rerunning the pipeline should fix the problem.
As it will reinstall cdk and fetch the latest stable release of the colors dependency.

I will close this issue for now, please reopen if this becomes an active issue again.