In sociology, the broken windows theory states that if a window in a building is broken and is left unrepaired, all the rest of the windows will soon be broken. This equally applies to software developement is it’s importatnt to be aware of this and make fixing these broken windows a team priority!

CircleCI provides several official orbs for interacting with Amazon Web Services, but not for CloudFormation specifically. However, that doesn’t mean you need to reach for a community orb to update your stacks from a CI pipeline. A single AWS CLI command is all that is needed to push template updates to your AWS account.