hands-on lab

Working with the AWS CDK Toolkit

Difficulty: Beginner
Duration: Up to 1 hour and 30 minutes
Students: 116
Rating: 5/5
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Description

The AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit) is a software development framework for provisioning and managing AWS cloud infrastructure resources using code.

The AWS CDK Toolkit is the primary tool for interacting with an application built using the AWS Cloud Development Kit. The CDK Toolkit is essentially the CLI command cdk accompanied by various subcommands, which allow you to initiate, synthesize, and deploy cloud resources to your AWS account.

In this lab, you will walk through the development process of a sample AWS CDK application in an integrated development environment (IDE) to utilize the AWS CDK Toolkit and discover the usage and benefits of the subcommands.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this beginner level lab, you will be able to:

  • Utilize the AWS CDK Toolkit to manage cloud infrastructure
  • Identify use cases for the various CDK Toolkit subcommands

Intended Audience

  • Cloud Architects
  • DevOps Engineers
  • Software Engineers

Prerequisites

Familiarity with the following will be beneficial but is not required:

  • Python Programming

The following courses and labs can be used to fulfill the prerequisite:

Covered topics

Lab steps

Initializing a Project and Listing Stacks Using the CDK Toolkit
Bootstrapping an AWS Environment Using the AWS CDK Toolkit
Understanding Synthesizing and Deploying with the AWS CDK Toolkit
Adding to an AWS CDK Application with the CDK Toolkit
Deleting a Stack from an AWS Environment Using the CDK Toolkit