Amazon API Gateway Deployment with CloudFormation

External

• https://currentlyunnamed-theclassic.blogspot.com/2018/12/mastering-cloudformation-for-api.html
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41423439/cloudformation-doesnt-deploy-to-api-gateway-stages-on-update

Internal

• API Gateway Operations
• API Gateway Concepts
• CloudFormation Operations
• CloudFormation Concepts

Resource Types

AWS::ApiGateway::RestApi

AWS::ApiGateway::RestApi

Resources:
  Api:
    Type: AWS::ApiGateway::RestApi
    Properties:
      Name: 'experimental-api'
      Description: 'An experimental API, deployed programmatically'
      FailOnWarnings: true
      BodyS3Location:
        Bucket: 'ovidiu-experiments'
        Key: 'openapi-aws.json'

AWS::ApiGateway::Deployment

AWS::ApiGateway::Deployment

Resources:

 ApiDeployment:
   Type: AWS::ApiGateway::Deployment
   DependsOn: Api
   Properties:
     RestApiId: !Ref Api
     Description: 'something'

AWS::ApiGateway::Stage

AWS::ApiGateway::Stage

AWS::ApiGateway::VpcLink

AWS::ApiGateway::VpcLink

Organizatorium

Simply changing the description of a Deployment does not triggers redeployment. Need a better mechanism.