Getting Started With CDK for Terraform - HashiConf 2021

This repo contains a couple reusable libraries and example stacks that highlight CDKTF features and patterns.

Utilities

cdktf-cli supports creating stacks based on a variety of built-in templates. Support for creating stacks based on remote templates was also added recently, but I have some convenient Makefile commands for these common operations.

Stack Creation

Here's how to create a new stack.

make init NAME=mystack
cd stacks/mystack
make install

Library Creation

We have a template for creating new Python modules in the lib directory. These provide re-usable compontents for importing into stacks. Here's how to create one.

make library NAME=mylib

Example Modules

example_cdktf_env

example_cdktf_env contains the ExampleStack, which can be used to derived new classes using inheritance. It automatically configures some common patterns, such as state management and the AWS provider.

example_s3

example_s3 is a trivial example of a reusable Python module that can be imported into stacks.

Example Stacks

cdk-state

cdk-state demonstrates how to setup S3 and DynamoDB for Terraform state management for use with the ExampleStack class.

example-site

The example-site stack is very simple deplyoment of a static website hosted on S3. The S3 bucket could have easily been created within the stack, but it demonstrates the use of inheriting the ExampleStack class and the reusable example_s3 module.