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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00:01:20 - What is CDK? 00:04:05 - Sample CDK Application 00:07:45 - Cloudformation? 00:10:00 - Local Development Environment 00:13:45 - Core Concepts - Constructs 00:23:00 - Other Key Concepts - Constructs, Stacks, App 00:25:50 - Hands On: Init, Proj Struct, Create + Deploy Constructs 00:30:30 - Init 00:31:45 - Project Structure 00:38:15 - CDK CLI Commands 00:41:20 - CDK Bootstrap (Create Cloudformation Stack) 00:43:00 - Create S3 Bucket L1 & L2 Constructs 00:45:35 - CDK Synth (View Cloudformation Template File) 00:48:45 - CDK Deploy 00:50:55 - Update S3 Bucket Name from Default + ReDeploy 00:56:00 - SQS Queue Notification + Deploy 01:01:35 - CDK Watch 01:02:35 - IAC Generator (Generate Cloudformation Template from Existing AWS Resources then Import it into New CDK Project) 01:04:55 - CDK Migrate (Generates Cloudformation Template using L1 Constructs) 01:06:40 - CDK Destroy

[@zijiali8349]

This is awesome Daniel! Great way to start AWS 2024.

[@AIAnimationStudio]

Simply superb. Thanks for this concise but effective run through. I recently took your Learning Accelerator course, which was great for laying the foundation in navigating my way around AWS and using the foundational components to build a simple relatable app. Then this video on CDK (along with many of your others) has been. a great next step. Slowly... getting a grasp on a wealth of things. Thankyou.

[@user-hc9xy9vj9y]

got cleared some of basic concepts, well done!

[@SashaArsic]

Amazing course, thanks! Of course, subscribed!

[@fahimsajjad5533]

Super clear and finally helped me understand AWS CDk

[@caseybui6949]

Thank you! I just need this and found your video!

[@Ronaldograxa]

This channel is unreal.. Thanks a lot for what you do

[@seanfang398]

interesting thing, I asked Amazon Q the question 'how to link a s3 put event to a sqs queue using cdk and typescript', it gave me an inaccurate answer in which it has a lambda function used for taking the event and sending it to the queue 😅. And then I said why using lambda since s3 notification has a direct integration with sqs? then it apologized and admitted this is a unnecessary step and gave me a correct answer🤣 I am an AWS user, and I really think it's necessary to put a bit more effect on their chatbot. Lastly, I like that reverse engineering thing, the iac generator, very cool feature👍

[@fesleymedia]

Really good course, thanks for the upload!

[@11WicToR11]

top tier tutorial, practical tips, examples....subscribed instantly

[@NickRobins88]

This was really good. Thank you 🙏

[@ajsimwork8887]

Great video brother!

[@kevtfung]

Just found your channel and been binging all your videos. Absolutely love them and more helpful than the $100 support a month to build my first app. Wish the docs/code examples were more helpful

[@BeABetterDev]

Thank you so much and welcome!

[@kevinvira]

Great introductory video. I definitely need to brush up on my Typescript skills (what even is a scope?). Most examples I see seem to be using TS. This video has helped me clear up so many of my cloudy concepts. Thank you!

[@timothyshiu2263]

Great video! Would you like to do a some unit test, integrated test, end to end test episode?

[@islombekhasanov]

Super nice. thanks!

[@TheFocusedCoder]

Great course!

[@yzchen9125]

Amazing, learned a lot

[@shoaibahmad.siddiqui]

Amazing, thanks

[@Sv-ry9lj]

Amazing!!!

[@BeABetterDev]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@rishiraj2548]

Great thanks

[@roninihanini]

ty :)

[@torontoyes]

I learned aws from a large codename, when I got hired at AWS, LOL. I'm still unfamiliar with the console.

[@thetrilbies1]

Daniel, this video really me to get started with CDK. I would like to have a CDK script to setup a Ubuntu EC2 instance, install apache2 and also install the SSL certificate to apache virtual host. Would you be able to show how to add SSL certificate to EC2 where the SSL certificates would reside in project folder? Thanks.

[@511jagadeshj3]

" cdk init app --language typescript " after using this command in my terminal it's showing as command not found and I can't download the prerequired packages what should i do to solve this issue

[@IThinkYouKnowMe]

Can you please do a video on managing multiple application stages in cdk (dev, test, prod for different aws account and multi region)? Also a video on cdk application + cdk codepipeline in a monorepo structure? Just a single lambda example should be great. Thanks for the cdk tutorial video ❤

[@ranjitr6247]

hello sir, Ranjit here can you complete AWS crash course in 2024

[@phamcongtoan1399]

+1

[@Ben-ni9sp]

I prefer having declarative IaC as opposed to having it as a programming language so I don’t have much desire to learn/use cdk

[@Lagiacrus1996]

... But then why are you here 🤣

[@connectvg23]

I doubt you can achieve fully in declarative manifest. Cz there are many interdependencies that can only be dealt in a programmatic way

[@shilashm5691]

​@@connectvg23i think decalarative way is best for defining infra, over programmatic, even we if want to programmatic way to do iac we can still use pulumi

[@yatri6329]

Organisation looking for CDK

[@shilashm5691]

@@yatri6329 why not pulumi thn?