AWS CDK Crash Course for Beginners

AWS CDK or Cloud Development Kit is a powerful infrastructure as code solution. It makes it easier to develop, deploy, and iterate with infrastructure updates using a programming language. Further, it contains many useful constructs that can help you set up an ENTIRE application in just a couple lines of code.

This is a crash course video where I teach you the fundamentals of CDK. The goal is to give you enough knowledge about what CDK is and how it works so that you can get started using it to build your own applications. First, I cover the problem CDK solves before jumping into the core CDK concepts you need to know. In the second half, I walk you through setting up a CDK project using typescript and show you how to use out of the box CDK constructs to create AWS infrastructure components.

00:16 What is CDK?
04:06 Example - creating infrastructure manually vs using CDK
07:40 How does CDK compare to AWS CloudFormation?
09:55 How CDK works from the user perspective (local development, source control integration)
13:40 Constructs - What are they and why are they helpful?
20:55 Construct Hub
21:35 CDK Reference Documentation
22:53 Stacks and Apps
27:15 Hands on building a CDK project with Typescript

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