Foundations of the AWS CDK
This course will teach you the fundamentals of the AWS CDK, focusing on understanding its components, providing you just enough to determine if the CDK is right for you, and letting you know how to get started if it is.
What you'll learn
Managing your AWS infrastructure ad-hoc can lead to sprawl, inconsistencies, and unneeded complexity. In this course, Foundations of the AWS CDK, you’ll discover if the AWS CDK is the right solution for simplifying and codifying your AWS deployments. First, you’ll explore how the CDK works alongside CloudFormation and JSII to deploy your AWS infrastructure and services while allowing you to leverage your favorite coding language. Next, you’ll discover the structure and terminologies used for a successful CDK project. Finally, you’ll learn how to get started by deploying, updating, and removing your first CDK app. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of the AWS CDK needed to begin to provide structure and consistency to your AWS deployments and infrastructure management.
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About the author
With a background at a cloud hosting company, I started learning Linux and DevOps from the bottom up as a technical writer set out to document configuration management systems. Falling in love with Linux, DevOps and tech as a whole, I eventually took my ability to explain technical concepts to wide audiences to the training area, creating courses on Red Hat, SaltStack, HashiCorp, LXD, Docker, and more.