Tag: cdk

How to import existing resources into AWS CDK Stacks

September 22, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Introduction Many customers have provisioned resources through the AWS Management Console or different Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, and then started using AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) in a later stage. After introducing AWS CDK into the architecture, you might want to import some…

Create a CI/CD pipeline for .NET Lambda functions with AWS CDK Pipelines

April 21, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is an open-source software development framework to define cloud infrastructure in familiar programming languages and provision it through AWS CloudFormation. In this blog post, we will explore the process of creating a Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline for…

Extending CloudFormation and CDK with Third-Party Extensions

March 31, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Did you know you can use CloudFormation to manage third-party resources? The AWS CloudFormation Public Registry provides a searchable collection of CloudFormation extensions and makes it easy to discover and provision them in CloudFormation templates and AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) applications. In the past three months, we’ve added…

Improve collaboration between teams by using AWS CDK constructs

February 23, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

There are different ways to organize teams to deliver great software products. There are companies that give the end-to-end responsibility for a product to a single team, like Amazon’s Two-Pizza teams, and there are companies where multiple teams split the responsibility between infrastructure (or platform)…

Secure CDK deployments with IAM permission boundaries

January 17, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

The AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) accelerates cloud development by allowing developers to use common programming languages when modelling their applications. To take advantage of this speed, developers need to operate in an environment where permissions and security controls don’t slow things down, and in…