cloudformation ecs force new deployement

What is the equivalent of --force-new-deployment flag in cloudformation ? (aws ecs update-service --cluster --service --force-new-deployment)

In my cloudformation template, my docker image tag is latest. However I want to be able to force the redeployment if I replay the stack.

Thanks you

Think of CloudFormation as just a provisioning service or an orchestrator.

Specifying an Image as repository-url/image:tag will definitely fetch the specified image with specific tag from your repo but only upon a stack operation. Once a stack operation is finished, any changes to service will be depending on the next stack operation.

What you can do here is either having either

• Cloudwatch Event based rule targeting a Lambda Function whenever there is an image upload to ECR.
• Or in case of using some other repo than ECR, have a hook configured in a way that will invoke update-service --cluster --service --force-new-deployment ... command whenever there is a new image upload.

Considerations:

• This can lead your stack being in DRIFTED status.
• Just make sure to keep your stack's Image property's value in sync with the latest one running within service, whenever you plan to update the stack.