AWS CDK

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Infrastructure as Code with AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit)

Outcome: Knowledge Sharing Blog post

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Morten Christensen commented in Trello:

From @mortench : CDK TimeBomb: https://twitter.com/nathankpeck/status/1270774028891041799?s=19

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Morten Christensen commented in Trello:

Getting started docs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/v2/guide/getting_started.html

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Morten Christensen commented in Trello:

Crash course: https://youtu.be/T-H4nJQyMig

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Morten Christensen commented in Trello:

Objectives:

• Setup the basics (AWS account access, user, roles)
• Setup dev environment (VS Code)
• Define a small scope
• Show examples in 2 languages (i.e. Python, Go)
• Compare and evaluate

Specifics:

• Experiment with "time bomb" as per comment below.

Extra:

• Consider how CDK can be used in a pipeline

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Morten Christensen commented in Trello:

Time bomb package for py: https://pypi.org/project/cdk-time-bomb/1.53.0/

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Morten Christensen commented in Trello:

Pre-requisites:

• Verified AWS Account credentials
• Research the basics of CDK and maybe watch crash course linked below
• Determine language preference

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Morten Christensen commented in Trello:

Before anything else, go through this: https://cdkworkshop.com/