Taskcat Workshop > Lab 2 > Create Psuedo Parameters

Create Psuedo Parameters

Add Psuedo-Parameters to your project-level taskcat config

Edit your cfn_project/.taskcat.yml parameters to include psuedo-parameters. Please see the Taskcat Concepts section for more details on psuedo-parameters

Example project config file:

project:
  name: cfn-project
tests:
  mytest:
    template: templates/lab2.template.yaml
    regions:
      - us-east-1
    parameters:
      S3BucketName: '$[taskcat_autobucket]'
      S3KeyPrefix: 'cfn-project/'
      LicenseToken: 'value-to-be-overriden-by-global-config'
      AvailabilityZones: '$[taskcat_genaz_2]'

Add Psuedo-parameters to your global taskcat config.

Edit your parameters to include psuedo-parameters.
Note: For the purposes of this lab, we’ve created a shortcut command to access to the file, in the IDE terminal type:
```
open-taskcat-global-config
```

The file will contain an empty general section when you open it. Let’s add an override to it for our LicenseToken. notice that the IDE has auto-complete, and validation on the config file format, so if anything is invalid you will see it inline, and in the PROBLEMS tab to the left of the terminal. Once you’re done your config should look like this:

    general:
      parameters:
        LicenseToken: 're:invent-2019-is-awesome'