Unable to parse request while deploying CDk stack #13349
Description
Trying to deploy a CDK 2.221.1 based stack, using CDK CLI 2.1031.1, on a localstack 4.10 instance running as a Docker image, I'm getting, the output below:
Bootstrapping environment aws://000000000000/eu-west-3...
Trusted accounts for deployment: (none)
Trusted accounts for lookup: (none)
Using default execution policy of 'arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/AdministratorAccess'. Pass '--cloudformation-execution-policies' to customize.
CDKToolkit: creating CloudFormation changeset...
CDKToolkit | 0/12 | 1:04:07 PM | REVIEW_IN_PROGRESS | AWS::CloudFormation::Stack | CDKToolkit User Initiated
CDKToolkit | 0/12 | 1:04:07 PM | CREATE_IN_PROGRESS | AWS::CloudFormation::Stack | CDKToolkit
CDKToolkit | 0/12 | 1:04:07 PM | CREATE_IN_PROGRESS | AWS::SSM::Parameter | CdkBootstrapVersion
CDKToolkit | 0/12 | 1:04:07 PM | CREATE_IN_PROGRESS | AWS::IAM::Role | CloudFormationExecutionRole
CDKToolkit | 1/12 | 1:04:07 PM | CREATE_COMPLETE | AWS::SSM::Parameter | CdkBootstrapVersion
CDKToolkit | 1/12 | 1:04:07 PM | CREATE_IN_PROGRESS | AWS::ECR::Repository | ContainerAssetsRepository
CDKToolkit | 2/12 | 1:04:07 PM | CREATE_COMPLETE | AWS::IAM::Role | CloudFormationExecutionRole
CDKToolkit | 2/12 | 1:04:07 PM | CREATE_IN_PROGRESS | AWS::S3::Bucket | StagingBucket
CDKToolkit | 3/12 | 1:04:07 PM | CREATE_COMPLETE | AWS::ECR::Repository | ContainerAssetsRepository
CDKToolkit | 3/12 | 1:04:08 PM | CREATE_IN_PROGRESS | AWS::IAM::Role | DeploymentActionRole
CDKToolkit | 4/12 | 1:04:08 PM | CREATE_COMPLETE | AWS::S3::Bucket | StagingBucket
CDKToolkit | 4/12 | 1:04:08 PM | CREATE_IN_PROGRESS | AWS::IAM::Role | FilePublishingRole
CDKToolkit | 5/12 | 1:04:08 PM | CREATE_COMPLETE | AWS::IAM::Role | DeploymentActionRole
CDKToolkit | 5/12 | 1:04:08 PM | CREATE_IN_PROGRESS | AWS::IAM::Policy | FilePublishingRoleDefaultPolicy
CDKToolkit | 6/12 | 1:04:08 PM | CREATE_COMPLETE | AWS::IAM::Role | FilePublishingRole
CDKToolkit | 6/12 | 1:04:08 PM | CREATE_IN_PROGRESS | AWS::IAM::Role | ImagePublishingRole
CDKToolkit | 7/12 | 1:04:08 PM | CREATE_COMPLETE | AWS::IAM::Policy | FilePublishingRoleDefaultPolicy
CDKToolkit | 7/12 | 1:04:08 PM | CREATE_IN_PROGRESS | AWS::IAM::Policy | ImagePublishingRoleDefaultPolicy
CDKToolkit | 8/12 | 1:04:08 PM | CREATE_COMPLETE | AWS::IAM::Role | ImagePublishingRole
CDKToolkit | 8/12 | 1:04:08 PM | CREATE_IN_PROGRESS | AWS::IAM::Role | LookupRole
CDKToolkit | 9/12 | 1:04:08 PM | CREATE_COMPLETE | AWS::IAM::Policy | ImagePublishingRoleDefaultPolicy
CDKToolkit | 9/12 | 1:04:08 PM | CREATE_IN_PROGRESS | AWS::S3::BucketPolicy | StagingBucketPolicy
CDKToolkit | 10/12 | 1:04:08 PM | CREATE_COMPLETE | AWS::IAM::Role | LookupRole
CDKToolkit | 11/12 | 1:04:08 PM | CREATE_COMPLETE | AWS::S3::BucketPolicy | StagingBucketPolicy
CDKToolkit | 12/12 | 1:04:08 PM | CREATE_COMPLETE | AWS::CloudFormation::Stack | CDKToolkit
✅ Environment aws://000000000000/eu-west-3 bootstrapped.
[INFO]
[INFO] --- exec:3.3.0:exec (deploy-to-localstack) @ customer-service-ecs-cdk ---
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2025-11-06 13:04:13,146 INFO [io.quarkus] (main) customer-service-ecs-cdk 1.0-SNAPSHOT on JVM (powered by Quarkus 3.29.0) started in 0.270s.
2025-11-06 13:04:13,151 INFO [io.quarkus] (main) Profile prod activated.
2025-11-06 13:04:13,151 INFO [io.quarkus] (main) Installed features: [cdi]
2025-11-06 13:04:15,181 INFO [io.quarkus] (main) customer-service-ecs-cdk stopped in 0.007s
[Warning at /QuarkusCustomerManagementStack/CustomerService/TaskDef/web] Proper policies need to be attached before pulling from ECR repository, or use 'fromEcrRepository'. [ack: @aws-cdk/aws-ecs:ecrImageRequiresPolicy]
[Warning at /QuarkusCustomerManagementStack/CustomerService/Service] minHealthyPercent has not been configured so the default value of 50% is used. The number of running tasks will decrease below the desired count during deployments etc. See https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/issues/31705 [ack: @aws-cdk/aws-ecs:minHealthyPercent]
✨ Synthesis time: 2.51s
QuarkusCustomerManagementStack: start: Building QuarkusCustomerManagementStack Template
QuarkusCustomerManagementStack: success: Built QuarkusCustomerManagementStack Template
QuarkusCustomerManagementStack: start: Publishing QuarkusCustomerManagementStack Template (000000000000-eu-west-3-d65912ef)
QuarkusCustomerManagementStack: fail: exception while calling s3 with unknown operation: Unable to parse request (not well-formed (invalid token): line 1, column 0), invalid XML received:
Follows a very long JSON payload in which I can see, among others, this:
"Description": "Version of the CDK Bootstrap resources in this environment, automatically retrieved from SSM Parameter Store. [cdk:skip]"
...
"CDK bootstrap stack version 6 required. Please run \'cdk bootstrap\' with a recent version of the CDK CLI."
Given that my version of CDK CLI is the last one (2.1031.1), the last message is probably missleading. The bootstrap version associated to the CDK 2.222.0 is 20, as shown below:
aws cloudformation describe-stacks \
--stack-name CDKToolkit \
--query "Stacks[].Outputs[?OutputKey == 'BootstrapVersion'].OutputValue" \
--output text
20
Accordingly, I dont know where this "CDK bootstrap version 6" comes from as it doesn't make much sense.
What am I missing here ?
Many thanks in advance.
Nicolas