This project is about creating a simple ec2 instance

This project is initialize using "cdk init app --language python" command.

Navigation of the code

1. app.py is the entry point
2. Under stacks folder go to ec2_stack.py so this is the main code for configuring the stack which is an ec2 instance as well as instructions available in this file

Reminders

1. dont forget to reinstall the aws-cdk to get the updated version
2. dont forget to activate the virtual env (steps on activating can be found below)
3. dont forget pip install -r requirements.txt to install the dependecies

Instructions given already when running the CDK init command

This is a blank project for Python development with CDK.

The cdk.json file tells the CDK Toolkit how to execute your app.

This project is set up like a standard Python project. The initialization process also creates a virtualenv within this project, stored under the .venv directory. To creat the virtualenv it assumes that there is a python3 (or python for Windows) executable in your path with access to the venv package. If for any reason the automatic creation of the virtualenv fails, you can create the virtualenv manually.

To manually create a virtualenv on MacOS and Linux:

$ python -m venv .venv

After the init process completes and the virtualenv is created, you can use the following step to activate your virtualenv.

$ source .venv/bin/activate

If you are a Windows platform, you would activate the virtualenv like this:

% .venv\Scripts\activate.bat

Once the virtualenv is activated, you can install the required dependencies.

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

At this point you can now synthesize the CloudFormation template for this code.

$ cdk synth

To add additional dependencies, for example other CDK libraries, just add them to your setup.py file and rerun the pip install -r requirements.txt command.

Useful commands

• cdk ls list all stacks in the app
• cdk synth emits the synthesized CloudFormation template
• cdk deploy deploy this stack to your default AWS account/region
• cdk diff compare deployed stack with current state
• cdk docs open CDK documentation

Enjoy!