I am writing a cloudformation template and have a parameter to take in a set of configuration values for AWS resources. One of the value is None as specified on the AWS documentation. However when I input null into the cloudformation, the stack fails with:
Template validation error: [/Parameters/.../AllowedValues/1] 'null' values are not allowed in templates.
For example setting one of the many configurations for elastic beanstalk which defaults to None:
Parameters:
EC2KeyPairName:
Description: EC2 key pair name for SSH access
Type: AWS::EC2::KeyPair::KeyName
Default: null
Resources:
Type: AWS::ElasticBeanstalk::ConfigurationTemplate
Properties:
ApplicationName: !Ref Application
SolutionStackName: !FindInMap [ StackMap, !Ref StackType, stackName ]
OptionSettings:
- Namespace: aws:autoscaling:launchconfiguration
OptionName: EC2KeyName
Value: !Ref EC2KeyPairName
How do I use the None value as one of the options for the parameter?