Get the bucket url of Cloudformation template

Question

I have a set of yaml templates (one root template and several childs) to create a root stack and nested stacks in the top level of an S3 bucket. It looks like:

my-cf-templates-bucket (S3 bucket)
├ root.yaml
├ child1.yaml
├ child2.yaml
├ ...
└ childN.yaml

In order to supply the TemplateURL of the child templates, currently I make use of a parameter TemplateS3Bucket for the bucket URL:

Parameters:
  TemplateS3Bucket:
    Description: The bucket url for templates
    Type: String
    Default: https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/my-cf-templates-bucket
Resources:
  ChildStack1:
    Type: AWS::CloudFormation::Stack
    Properties:
      TemplateURL: !Join ["/", [ !Ref TemplateS3Bucket, "child1.yaml"]]
      Parameters:
        ProjectName: !Ref ProjectName
  ChildStack1:
    Type: AWS::CloudFormation::Stack
    Properties:
      TemplateURL: !Join ["/", [ !Ref TemplateS3Bucket, "child2.yaml"]]
      Parameters:
        ProjectName: !Ref ProjectName
  # ...
  ChildStackN:
    Type: AWS::CloudFormation::Stack
    Properties:
      TemplateURL: !Join ["/", [ !Ref TemplateS3Bucket, "childN.yaml"]]
      Parameters:
        ProjectName: !Ref ProjectName

The question is:

Is there a way (!GetAtt etc.) to get the bucket URL of the S3 root template through which I create a stack in AWS CloudFormation console (not aws-cli).

Having such a way, I could intrinsically have the bucket url for the child templates and neither need to add them as overrideable parameters nor repeat the full bucket url for all the templateURL properties of the child stacks.

sharingan sharingan · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-08T04:33:32

No way that I'm aware of. Passing the S3 bucket of the templates as a parameters seems to be the the standard/most common way of doing things.

Get the bucket url of Cloudformation template

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