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rehanvdm / cdk-express-pipeline

CDK Express Pipelines is a library built on the AWS CDK, allowing you to define pipelines in a CDK-native method. It leverages the CDK CLI to compute and deploy the correct dependency graph between Waves, Stages, and Stacks using the .addDependency method, making it build-system agnostic and an alternative to AWS CDK Pipelines.
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Questions #6

Closed hikeeba closed 1 month ago

hikeeba commented 1 month ago

Just tested out this package and it looks very promising. Couple of questions if you have a moment.

Thanks so much!

hikeeba commented 1 month ago

Also, are you open to pull requests from other parties?

rehanvdm commented 1 month ago

Hey, appreciate the questions:

Do you expect this project/package to be expanded and supported for a while?

100% This is not a short-term project and I hope that it becomes a strong contender to AWS CDK Pipelines

What is the recommended pattern for handling multiple development/deployment environments (dev, test, staging, prod, etc.)?

This is how I approach it, have a look at the "Configuration" and "Multiple environments" sections on this post I wrote: https://rehanvdm.com/blog/aws-cdk-starter-configuration-multiple-environments-cicd (here is the attached GH repo for that: https://github.com/rehanvdm/cdk-starter).

Basically, I like to create an EnvironmentConfig then and make a file for each environment config, like config/development.ts. Then in the CDK app select the correct environment config file depending on a Context Variable (-c).

Assuming there is a pattern for multiple environments, is there also a pattern for passing configuration values per environment?

Similar to the above, it leverages the CDK functionality, this package of mine is just a wrapper to improve the order of deployment for CDK stacks. So yes, if you can do it CDK then you can do it here as well.

rehanvdm commented 1 month ago

Also, are you open to pull requests from other parties?

😃 YES, please! I see I don't have a CONTRIBUTING.md file. Just open an Issue first, then we can see if there are no one else working on it and I could give some tips. We then discuss ans assign it to you and you can start.

hikeeba commented 1 month ago

Perfect, thanks! We can close this issue and I'll try out the patterns mentioned in your post.