CloudFormation doesn't deploy to API gateway stages on update

Question

When I run CloudFormation deploy using a template with API Gateway resources, the first time I run it, it creates and deploys to stages. The subsequent times I

Answer 1

I was using above approach but it looks to complicated to me just to deploy API gateway. If we are changing name of the resources then it takes time to delete and recreate the resources which increases down time for you application.

I'm following below approach to deploy API gateway to the stage using AWS CLI and it is not affecting the deployment with Cloudformation stack.

What I'm doing is, running below AWS CLI command after deployment is completed for API Gateway. It will update the existing stage with latest updates.

aws apigateway create-deployment --rest-api-id tztstixfwj --stage-name stg --description 'Deployed from CLI'