Allow different names for the SAR application

[benbridts]

The documentation says:

Application Name The stack name of this application created via AWS CloudFormation. This should always be aws-deployment-framework.

However, if you want to install ADF using CloudFormation / SAM, there is no way to select the name . Instead the resulting (nested) CloudFormation stack will have a name like ${parentStack}-${resourceName}-${randomId}. Eg. if you deploy the template below as 'adf-test', it might look like adf-test-AwsDeploymentFrameWork-W4AUMAFJESS7.

I looked at the resulting template, and I couldn't find any use of AWS::StackName in it. This leads me to a few questions:

• Is it really needed to use aws-deployment-framework as the name?
• If not, can we update the documentation?
• Is there anything that would block using CloudFormation to deploy the SAR app?

Description: AWS Deployment Framework SAR app and related resources
Parameters:
  Version:
    Description: ADF Version
    Type: String
    Default: 3.1.2
Transform: AWS::Serverless-2016-10-31
Resources:
  AwsDeploymentFrameWork:
    Type: AWS::Serverless::Application
    Properties:
      Location:
        ApplicationId: arn:aws:serverlessrepo:us-east-1:112893979820:applications/aws-deployment-framework
        SemanticVersion: !Ref Version

[benbridts]

Update: I found 1 hardcoded values in the template that depends on this naming (searched for serverlessrepo-aws):

https://github.com/awslabs/aws-deployment-framework/blob/master/src/template.yml#L414

[sbkok]

Thank you for your patience. I am happy to inform you that this issue has been resolved in our latest release v3.2.0 just now. I'm hereby closing this issue. Please open a new issue if you are experiencing any issues with the latest release.