109. What is the AWS Project Development Kit (PDK)?

This episode of the AWS Bites Podcast provides an overview of the AWS Project Development Kit (PDK), an open-source tool to help bootstrap and maintain cloud projects. We discuss what PDK is, how it can help generate boilerplate code and infrastructure, keep configuration consistent across projects, and some pros and cons of using a tool like this versus doing it manually.
Is PDK something you should use for your cloud projects? Let's find out!
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🔖 Chapters:
00:00 Introduction to topic and speakers
00:59 What is PDK and what problem does it aim to solve?
03:28 How PDK builds on CDK and Progen
04:21 Overview of Projen and how it fits into the ecosystem
07:19 How Projen could be used by platform teams
07:54 The need to keep dependencies updated in projects
08:15 Getting started with PDK
10:27 Scaffolding a PDK project
12:19 Where to go next with tutorials and docs
12:57 Languages supported by PDK
14:20 Pros and cons of using PDK
20:43 Community adoption and reactions to PDK
21:27 Alternatives like Yeoman, Cookiecutter, GitHub templates
24:37 Do you need a tool like PDK or better off doing manually?
27:25 Wrap up and additional notes
In this episode, we mentioned the following resources.
- The official PDK website (and documentation): aws.github.io/aws-pdk/
- Our previous episode "16. What are the pros and cons of CDK?": awsbites.com/16-what-are-the-...
- Our previous episode "93. CDK Patterns - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly": awsbites.com/93-cdk-patterns-...
- Projen's official website: projen.io/
- Introduction talk to Projen at CDK Day 2020: • CDK Day 2020 - Projen....
- Our previous episode "70. How do you create good AWS diagrams?": awsbites.com/70-how-do-you-cr...
- Building a shopping list app with PDK (tutorial): aws.github.io/aws-pdk/getting...
- PDK in-depth developer guides: aws.github.io/aws-pdk/develop...
- Opinion by Vlad Ionescu on X: / 1743608823896592640
- Yeoman: yeoman.io/
- CookieCutter: github.com/cookiecutter/cooki...
- Terraform project generation example: github.com/conzy/terraform-demo
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