cdk cli synth: Erroneous error - CDK bootstrap stack version 6 required

[mcqj]

Describe the bug

When creating a very simple stack using cdk init, cdk synth fails with the error message shown below.

AssertDescription: CDK bootstrap stack version 6 required. Please run 'cdk bootstrap' with a recent version of the CDK CLI

However, retrieving the version from parameter store shows bootstrap version 14.

cdk deploy does correctly deploy the stack, so the problem is only with synth.

Expected Behavior

cdk synth should create Cloudformation template

Current Behavior

'cdk synth` errors out, expecting a specific (and old) version of bootstrap.

Reproduction Steps

Create a new stack with

cdk init app --language javascript

Bootstrap with

cdk bootstrap

Try to synthesize with

cdk synth

Possible Solution

Update the version check in cdk synth

Additional Information/Context

No response

CDK CLI Version

2.50.0

Framework Version

2

Node.js Version

16.18.0

OS

Macos Monterey

Language

Typescript

Language Version

Using Javascript

Other information

No response

[peterwoodworth]

Hey @mcqj,

I wasn't able to reproduce this following your reproduction steps.

I suspect that because this is occurring during synth, that you might be performing some lookups such as Vpc.fromLookup. Are you making any lookup calls in your CDK application?

Additionally, can you verify the account + region you are synthesizing in, and make sure that that region is the region that has been bootstrapped with version 14?

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[ghost]

I have exactly this problem, using the stack generated with cdk init -l typescript from CDK v2.53.0. Node v18.12.1 on macOS Ventura 13.0.1.

Parameter Store has /cdk-bootstrap/xxx/version → 14, everything is in us-east-1

[kr0ggg]

I have also received this exact problem using cdk version: 2.70.0 (build c13a0f1) this week.

I am just running the basic cdk init template stack as shown below. cdk deploy works.

import * as cdk from 'aws-cdk-lib';
import { Construct } from 'constructs';
import * as sqs from 'aws-cdk-lib/aws-sqs';

export class CdkWorkshopStack extends cdk.Stack {
  constructor(scope: Construct, id: string, props?: cdk.StackProps) {
    super(scope, id, props);

    // The code that defines your stack goes here

    // example resource
     const queue = new sqs.Queue(this, 'CdkWorkshopQueue', {
       visibilityTimeout: cdk.Duration.seconds(300),
       queueName: 'AddSongQueue'
     });
  }
}

[romulous75]

I also have this issue:

cdk --version
2.85.0 (build 4e0d726)

cdk bootstrap
✅  Environment aws://xxxxxxxxxxxxx/xxxxxxxxxxxx bootstrapped (no changes).

cdk synth
AssertDescription: CDK bootstrap stack version 6 required. Please run 'cdk bootstrap' with a recent version of the CDK CLI.

And:

cdk diff

Other Changes
[+] Unknown Rules: {"CheckBootstrapVersion":{"Assertions":[{"Assert":{"Fn::Not":[{"Fn::Contains":[["1","2","3","4","5"],{"Ref":"BootstrapVersion"}]}]},"AssertDescription":"CDK bootstrap stack version 6 required. Please run 'cdk bootstrap' with a recent version of the CDK CLI."}]}}

cdk list
CdkStack

[buchananta]

For anyone else who stumbles across this. It looks like this isn't actually an error, but a terrible UI design

[mat01]

Is it unreasonable to expect AWS to fix it, so that people (particularly beginners) are not concerned by 'error messages' that seem to mean nothing?