IndyAWS Hosts AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) Discussion

The June 2021 edition of IndyAWS — Indiana’s fastest growing cloud meetup founded in 2017 by Six Feet Up CTO and Amazon Web Services (AWS) Community Hero Calvin Hendryx-Parker — hosted an engaging live-coding presentation and discussion on AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) for automating tasks and repeatable components.

Speaker Ken Winner, Engineer at Stedi, demonstrated and explained CDK’s process for:

• applications,
• stacks,
• constructs and
• pipelines.

Watch Ken’s talk:

Links and Resources:

• AWS CDK Toolkit Developer Guide: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/latest/guide/cli.html
• AWS CDK Corner/CDK Construction Zone: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/cdk-corner-march-2021/
• Using projen to deploy AWS AppSync with AWS CDK: https://kennethwinner.com/2020/10/23/projen-appsync-project/
• CDK Bucket Deployment Expirator: https://github.com/kcwinner/cdk-bucket-deployment-expirator
• Read the full Twitter thread of Ken’s talk on IndyAWS’ Twitter profile: https://twitter.com/IndyAWS/status/1404892930977013770