CloudFormation Derriere Kicker

Are you using the AWS Cloud Development Kit yet? If your job ever involves creating or maintaining infrastructure (on AWS, natch), you absolutely should be. Take the power of CloudFormation (minus the annoying parts) and mix it with the familiarity of your favorite programming language (Python, am I right? Yes I am. But TypeScript, Java, and .NET are also choices), and you get a killer option in the burgeoning Infrastructure as Code toolbox.

Instead of spending a bunch of time telling you why the CDK is so great, here’s some resources to help you to discover so for yourself:

• The official Getting Started page
• A blog post that walks through typical usage
• A collection of tips, tricks, and links from the author of the above
• Discussion on how CDK can enable infrastructure code testing
• A real-world example of usage (from an open source project I wrote)
• The beginnings of a collection of reusable patterns

Happy building!