Delete a stack set - AWS Control Tower

Delete a stack set

You can delete a stack set if you've enabled stack set deletion in the manifest file. By default, the enable_stack_set_deletion parameter is set to false. In this configuration, no action is taken to delete the associated stack set when a resource is removed from the CfCT manifest file.

If you change the value of enable_stack_set_deletion to true in the manifest file, CfCT deletes the stack set and all of its resources when you remove an associated resource from the manifest file.

This capability is supported in v2 of the manifest file.

Important

When you initially set the value of enable_stack_set_deletion to true, the next time you invoke CfCT, ALL resources that begin with the prefix CustomControlTower-, which have the associated key tag Key:AWS_Solutions, Value: CustomControlTowerStackSet, and which are not declared in the manifest file, are staged for deletion.

Here's an example of how to set this parameter in a manifest.yaml file:

version: 2021-03-15
region: us-east-1
enable_stack_set_deletion: true   #New opt-in functionality


resources: 
  - name: demo_resource_1
    resource_file: s3://demo_bucket/resource.template
    deployment_targets:
      accounts:
        - 012345678912
    deploy_method: stack_set
    ...
    regions:
    - us-east-1
    - us-west-2

  - name: demo_resource_2
    resource_file: s3://demo_bucket/resource.template
    deployment_targets:
      accounts:
        - 012345678912
    deploy_method: stack_set
    ...
    regions: 
    - us-east-1
    - eu-north-1