CDK Intro Talk

This is meant to be an intro intro into using CDK to show it's capabilities. Relevant sources for some of the code (specifically the Fargate/VPC/Cluster part of it) can be found in the free version of the project here.

Useful commands

• cdk boostrap used to setup s3 bucket to hold your code, necessary before deploying for the first time.

• npm run build compile typescript to js

• npm run watch watch for changes and compile

• npm run test perform the jest unit tests

• cdk deploy deploy this stack to your default AWS account/region

• cdk diff compare deployed stack with current state

• cdk synth emits the synthesized CloudFormation template