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For a while now, the provisioning of cloud infrastructure by code has been accepted as an industry standard. Companies and other entities can save time and money by automating the process of providing AWS resources rather than doing it manually using the AWS console. After that, tools like AWS CloudFormation and Terraform became widely used to create cloud resources using a declarative strategy. However, a declarative approach to configuration can be quite involved, leading to enormous JSON or YAML templates that must be kept current in order to support infrastructure as code. That’s where AWS CDK comes in to simplify the workflow of developers and help them provision cloud infrastructure using an imperative approach. This guide further explains AWS CDK Python and documentation.<\/p>
AWS CDK, or AWS Cloud Development Kit, is an open-source software development framework for defining cloud infrastructure as code (IaC). It enables developers to model and provision AWS resources using familiar programming languages such as TypeScript, Python, Java, and others. Instead of writing templates in AWS CloudFormation\u2019s JSON or YAML, CDK allows developers to express infrastructure using the constructs and abstractions of their chosen programming language.<\/p>
CDK provides a high-level abstraction over AWS resources, making it easier to create and manage complex cloud infrastructure. Developers can define stacks, which represent a set of AWS resources, and leverage reusable constructs provided by the CDK library. This approach enhances productivity by allowing developers to use the same tools and practices for infrastructure as they do for application code.<\/p>
Once the infrastructure is defined in code, CDK synthesizes it into CloudFormation templates, which are then deployed to AWS. This enables efficient collaboration, versioning, and sharing of infrastructure code, promoting best practices in DevOps and infrastructure management. Overall, AWS CDK simplifies and accelerates the process of provisioning and maintaining cloud resources.<\/p>
To break down the concept of AWS CDK can be broken down into three main components that allow you to tailor the provisioning of your infrastructure to your specific needs.<\/p>
When you produce an AWS CDK application, the output is a cloud assembly that includes the AWS CloudFormation templates for your stacks and all of your application’s assets.<\/p>
The AWS CDK CLI may then deploy this package to the AWS account and region of your choice.<\/p>
The AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit) works by allowing developers to define cloud infrastructure using familiar programming languages. Developers write code in languages like TypeScript, Python, or Java, using CDK constructs to represent AWS resources. These constructs are higher-level abstractions that make it easier to express and manipulate cloud resources.<\/p>
Once the code is written, developers use the CDK CLI to synthesize it into AWS CloudFormation templates. These templates capture the desired state of the infrastructure in a declarative manner. The synthesized templates can be reviewed, version-controlled, and shared like any other code.<\/p>