Real-Life Infrastructure as Code with AWS CDK

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Learn AWS CDK With Real-Life Examples

Dive into the world of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with "Real-Life Infrastructure as Code with AWS CDK". Perfect for software and data engineers, this guide offers practical examples, best practices, and expert insights into building and managing cloud infrastructure using AWS CDK. Whether you're looking to streamline deployments, enhance scalability, or secure your cloud environments, this book equips you with the knowledge to leverage IaC principles effectively. Transform your development workflow and bring your projects from concept to production.

This book will show you how to build a modern software platform in Python using AWS CDK. Even if you use a different language, you will find this book useful because I focus on architecture patterns rather than syntax details. The book is divided into three parts: Foundations, Real-Life Examples, and Best Practices.

The Book's Content

We start with an introduction to IaC and CDK to help you quickly learn and refresh some concepts. Then, we dive into a series of real-life implementations of various services and components that you can use to build your software platform. All examples are complete and fully functional, and the code is shared on GitHub repositories with the complete working examples (deployable stacks). Finally, we discuss some best practices that I have learned from years of experience working with CDK. You'll learn:

• AWS CDK and IaC concepts.
• Cloud computing concepts and services, including the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• How to build a cloud-native software platform using CDK.
• Create reusable constructs for your cloud application.
• How to deploy a microservices architecture with CDK.

Why this book?

Most books and other material you find online will focus on syntax or general concepts, and the documentation for both AWS and CDK is excellent. Therefore, I do not believe that I should write a book to discuss those topics. Instead, I focus on the areas that can be challenging, such as connecting and orchestrating different cloud services. The book also includes diagrams and illustrations to help you understand the architecture and how each component fits into the system. Here are a few examples you'll see in the book:

• Organizations, accounts and SSO (IAM Identity Center)
• Vpcs, subnets, access logs, Cloudtrail, OIDC. firewall
• Hosted zones, ACM, SES
• Static sites with Cloudfront + S3
• Eventbridge + Kinesis Firehose
• CI/CD with GitHub Actions
• Lambda functions, RDS Aurora, and API Gateway in a microservices architecture
• Client VPN + Transit Gateways