register-type¶

Description¶

Registers a type with the CloudFormation service. Registering a type makes it available for use in CloudFormation templates in your AWS account, and includes:

Validating the resource schema
Determining which handlers have been specified for the resource
Making the resource type available for use in your account

For more information on how to develop types and ready them for registeration, see Creating Resource Providers in the CloudFormation CLI User Guide .

You can have a maximum of 50 resource type versions registered at a time. This maximum is per account and per region. Use DeregisterType to deregister specific resource type versions if necessary.

Once you have initiated a registration request using `` RegisterType `` , you can use `` DescribeTypeRegistration `` to monitor the progress of the registration request.

Synopsis¶

  register-type
[--type <value>]
--type-name <value>
--schema-handler-package <value>
[--logging-config <value>]
[--execution-role-arn <value>]
[--client-request-token <value>]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]
[--cli-auto-prompt <value>]

Options¶

--type (string)

The kind of type.

Currently, the only valid value is RESOURCE .

Possible values:

RESOURCE

--type-name (string)

The name of the type being registered.

We recommend that type names adhere to the following pattern: company_or_organization ::service ::type .

Note

The following organization namespaces are reserved and cannot be used in your resource type names:

Alexa

AMZN

Amazon

AWS

Custom

Dev

--schema-handler-package (string)

A url to the S3 bucket containing the schema handler package that contains the schema, event handlers, and associated files for the type you want to register.

For information on generating a schema handler package for the type you want to register, see submit in the CloudFormation CLI User Guide .

Note

As part of registering a resource provider type, CloudFormation must be able to access the S3 bucket which contains the schema handler package for that resource provider. For more information, see IAM Permissions for Registering a Resource Provider in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide .

--logging-config (structure)

Specifies logging configuration information for a type.

LogRoleArn -> (string)

The ARN of the role that CloudFormation should assume when sending log entries to CloudWatch logs.

LogGroupName -> (string)

The Amazon CloudWatch log group to which CloudFormation sends error logging information when invoking the type’s handlers.

Shorthand Syntax:

LogRoleArn=string,LogGroupName=string

JSON Syntax:

{
  "LogRoleArn": "string",
  "LogGroupName": "string"
}

--execution-role-arn (string)

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the IAM role for CloudFormation to assume when invoking the resource provider. If your resource type calls AWS APIs in any of its handlers, you must create an * IAM execution role * that includes the necessary permissions to call those AWS APIs, and provision that execution role in your account. When CloudFormation needs to invoke the resource provider handler, CloudFormation assumes this execution role to create a temporary session token, which it then passes to the resource provider handler, thereby supplying your resource provider with the appropriate credentials.

--client-request-token (string)

A unique identifier that acts as an idempotency key for this registration request. Specifying a client request token prevents CloudFormation from generating more than one version of a type from the same registeration request, even if the request is submitted multiple times.

--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml (string) Reads arguments from the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, those values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally. This may not be specified along with --cli-input-yaml.

--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. Similarly, if provided yaml-input it will print a sample input YAML that can be used with --cli-input-yaml. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command.

--cli-auto-prompt (boolean) Automatically prompt for CLI input parameters.

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Examples¶

To register a resource type

The following register-type example registers the specified resource type as a private resource type in the user’s account.

aws cloudformation register-type \
    --type-name My::Organization::ResourceName \
    --schema-handler-package s3://bucket_name/my-organization-resource_name.zip \
    --type RESOURCE

Output:

{
    "RegistrationToken": "f5525280-104e-4d35-bef5-8f1f1example"
}

For more information, see Registering Resource Providers in the CloudFormation Command Line Interface User Guide for Type Development.

Output¶

RegistrationToken -> (string)

The identifier for this registration request.

Use this registration token when calling `` DescribeTypeRegistration `` , which returns information about the status and IDs of the type registration.

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