Awesome CDK

A curated list of awesome projects related to the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK).

DISCLAIMER: this is a personal project and not affiliated with Amazon or AWS.

Contents

• Construct Libraries
• Tools
• Training Materials and Sample Code
• Blog Posts & Talks
• Tips & Tricks
• Related Projects

Construct Libraries

This section includes code libraries in various programming languages which vend constructs that can be used in CDK apps.

• aws-delivlib: synthesizes CI/CD pipelines for multi-language software delivery (used by the CDK itself)
• cdk-tweet-queue: fills up an SQS queue with tweets from a tweeter search query.
• cdk-dynamo-table-viewer: exposes the contents of an Amazon DynamoDB table through a public HTML page.
• cdk-tweet-sentiment: identify sentiments in tweets and log them into an Amazon DynamoDB table.
• cdk-watchful: automatic dashboards and alarms for CDK apps
• Alexa Deployment Pipeline: Construct which creates a CodePipeline to deploy Alexa Skills to Lambda and to the Developer console using AWS SAM and DeployToAlexa action.
• cdk-codepipeline-slack: Cdk component that provisions a #slack approval workflow
• cdk-github-webhook: Cdk component that provisions github webhooks
• cdk-static-website: Cdk component that creates a static website using S3, configures CloudFront (CDN) and maps a custom domain via Route53 (DNS)
• cdk-pull-request-check: Cdk component that automatically check pull requests
• cdk-passwordless: construct for having passwordless authentication using userpool
• cdk-ses-template-mailer: Constructs to create AWS SES email templates + microservice to send templated emails with AWS SES.
• aws-cdk-pure - a toolkit to develop purely functional and high-order cloud components with AWS CDK.
• cdk-iam-generator - Construct to generate IAM Managed Policies and IAM Roles using JSON Configuration

Tools

• GitHub Action for AWS CDK
• jsii-publish: A Docker image and GitHub action to build and publish CDK constructs created via JSII.

Training Materials and Sample Code

• Official CDK Examples
• CDK Serverless Workshop
• Infrastructure is Code with the AWS CDK: recording of re:Invent 2018 session
• GitHub Changelog Crawler - a fully fledged CDK app written by Nathan Peck which uses Fargate, API Gateway, Lambda, CloudFront, S3, ElastiCache, and Dynamodb.
• ECS with CI/CD
• Lambda packaging asset
• Open CDK Guide: Open source guide on CDK and best practices
• Colorteller Example: Great example project using Fargate and Appmesh

Blog Posts & Talks

• Introduction to how and why CDK keynote/pdf
• How to Build a CDK Construct Library by Philipp Garbe
• CDK All The Things: A Whirlwind Tour by Kevin S Lin
• Developer Preview Announcement
• Contributing to the AWS Cloud Development Kit by Mike Cowgill from Intuit.
• First look into AWS Cloud Development Kit by Philipp Garbe
• Boost your AWS Infrastructure with the CDK SlideShare by Philipp Garbe
• Getting started with AWS CDK for Amazon ECS by Nathan Peck
• AWS re:Invent 2018, best of show: CDK (Aller Media Tech Blog)
• AWS User Group Finland Meetup January 2019
• AWS CDK — a glimpse into the future (Nordcloud Engineering)
• AWS Infrastructure as Code with CDK by Ross Rhodes.
• Callbacks with AWS Step Functions using CDK by Ross Rhodes.
• Using the CDK for CodePipelines Setup by Stefan Freitag.
• Using the CDK for AWS MSK Setup by Stefan Freitag.
• Serverless Dotnet - E01: Intro to AWS CDK and Github repository by Jake Scott.
• AWS Tech Talk Webinar
• Using CDK to build a UDP NLB Logging Service and Github Repo by ClouderDex
• Purely Functional Cloud Components with AWS CDK
• Scheduled Lambda Functions and CI/CD pipeline with AWS CDK and Github Repo by Maarten Thoelen

Related Projects

• jsii - javascript interop interface, the technology the CDK uses to release to multiple programming langauges.
• punchcard - typescript framework to unify infrastructure and runtime code for the CDK, so you can declare constructs and implement runtime logic within the context of one node.js application.

Tips & Tricks

• Reflect on the CDK Type System (gist)
• Testing Your Construct Library CodeBuild Configuration Locally with the jsii/superchain:latest Docker Image

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License

To the extent possible under law, Elad Ben-Israel has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.