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Alexander Zeitler
February 19, 2020
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AWS CDK - Infrastructure as Code
Slides for my AWS CDK talk at DevOps Meetup Karlsruhe, Germany
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February 19, 2020
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Transcript
AWS CDK Infrastructure as Code
Alexander Zeitler CTO + Cloud Solution Architect Vote2Work | @lxztlr
AWS CDK 2
Cloud Deployments • Reliable • Repeatable (Reproducible) • Testable •
Secure 3 AWS CDK
Level 0: Manual Infrastructure Setup 4 AWS CDK
Level 0: Manual Infrastructure Setup 5 AWS CDK Error prone
Not reproducable Time consuming Easy to get started Learn new Services
Level 1: Imperative Infrastructure as Code 6 AWS CDK deploy.*
AWS SDK AWS CLI
Level 1: Imperative Infrastructure as Code 7 AWS CDK Error
Handling (Retry) Infrastructure Updates Readiness Checks Rollback Concurrency
Level 1: Imperative Infrastructure as Code 8 AWS CDK Boilerplate
Coding Time consuming More mature than Manual • Faster • Reproducable (from Scratch)
Level 2: Declarative Infrastructure as Code 9 AWS CDK infrastructure.*
AWS CloudFormation AWS SDK
Level 2: Declarative Infrastructure as Code 10 AWS CDK infrastructure.*
Level 2: Declarative Infrastructure as Code 11 AWS CDK AWS
CloudFormation Template HashiCorp Configuration Language Desired State Configuration AWS CloudFormation
Level 2: Declarative Infrastructure as Code 12 AWS CDK Syntax
Lack of Abstractions Chatty Automation Reproducable Handles create vs. update
CloudFormation DOM 13 AWS CDK AWS CloudFormation CloudFormation Template Example:
GoFormation
CloudFormation DOM 14 AWS CDK Lack of Abstractions Real Code
Desired State
Maturity Levels of IaC 15 AWS CDK Manual Imperative Declarative
DOMs 2 1 0 “2+”
Level 3: AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) 16 AWS CDK
stack.ts AWS CFN AWS SDK AWS CDK
AWS CDK Constructs • Low-Level constructs based on AWS CloudFormation
• IAM Policy, IAM User, IAM Group, IAM Permission… • S3 Bucket • Route53 HostedZone • AWS Lambda • CloudWatch 17 AWS CDK
AWS CDK Stacks 18 AWS CDK Stack(s) Construct Construct AWS
CloudFormation CloudFormation Template
19 AWS CDK AWS CDK – Supported Platforms
AWS CDK - Abstraction 20 AWS CDK
AWS CDK 21 AWS CDK Write Code in familiar language
Create dependent resources with a single line of code Still declarative (CFN), handles create vs. update
AWS CDK - Commands 22 AWS CDK • cdk init
• cdk bootstrap • cdk synth • cdk deploy • cdk destroy
Hands on 23 AWS CDK
Team/Company Topologies • Infrastructure • Dev • Ops • Billing
24 AWS CDK
CDK Components / Patterns • Opinionated Compositions of CDK Constructs
• Permissions to deploy a PWA on S3 with route53 CNAME • Add/Remove CNAME in HostedZone • route53:ChangeResourceRecordSets • route53:ListHostedZonesByName • route53:GetHostedZone • route53:GetChange • Create S3 Bucket / Deploy to S3 Bucket 25 AWS CDK
26 AWS CDK IAM Base (Administrators etc.) AWS root Account
CDK Application / Service CDK Construct Security CI/CD CDK Pattern CDK Construct AWS CDK – Patterns
CDK Components / Patterns • Separation of Concerns • Reusable
across teams / services / applications • “Best practices as Code” (Patterns) • Least privilege • Tested 27 AWS CDK
Thanks! 28 AWS CDK
Resources Links • CDK Workshop: https://cdkworkshop.com/ • PDMLab CDK Constructs:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@pdmlab/cdk-constructs • CDK Patterns: https://cdkpatterns.com/ • Building Cross-platform CDK Constructs: https://www.matthewbonig.com/2020/01/11/creating-constructs/ • CDK constructs on npm: #cdk • CDK Catalog on Twitter: @awscdkio 29 AWS CDK