Getting Started with AWS CDK and Python | Step by Step Tutorial

CDK is a powerful Infrastructure as Code tool offered by AWS. In this video, I show you how to get started with CDK. This includes setup of your initial project, configuring your AWS user permissions, and creating a S3 bucket using a basic CDK construct.
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[@jasmineali90]

Thanks for the quick, yet descriptive tutorial, just to the point!

[@DogoOrtodoxo]

Your tutorials are really the best ones.

[@webnetart]

Thank you, you cleared my vision as a beginner.

[@emmanuelhernandezolvera]

Thank you, I was having trouble with the interpeter and I could not see autocomplete suggestions. This was very useful and thoroughly explained.

[@BeABetterDev]

Thanks Emmanuel, I'm glad you enjoyed!

[@zaboomafia]

Great overview with getting started!

[@charlielauters3107]

Thanks for putting this video together! One note, @~8:35 he covers an error to select the correct python interpreter. I had the correct version (python 3.11.0) but hadn't installed the AWS CDK.

[@RahulLokurte]

Explanation is very good and modular.. Thank you for the video.

[@BeABetterDev]

Glad you liked it Rahul!

[@kassandrarodriguez8057]

thanks was great. cause i was wondering why my autocomplete was not working. you the best

[@justdewit]

I had to run `cdk bootstrap` before my first `cdk deploy`. I also had to install docker on windows for `cdk synth` to work. Great vid.

[@BeABetterDev]

Thank you so much!

[@OscarDiaz-fb8jd]

This video was awesome! Thank you so much

[@BeABetterDev]

You're very welcome Oscar!

[@andresmesad]

Thanks for the video. I really like showing errors live.

[@MrGustavCR]

Thank you for another awesome tutorial. Please do a CDK TypeScript version as well

[@BeABetterDev]

Coming soon! Thanks Gustav

[@Bertolomych]

That's actually pretty straight forward to do the same steps in TS. Just try it! =)

[@NaJoeLibre]

Always pays to rewatch videos. Was asking myself how to update my lambda code while preventing drift and I guess you use cdk diff to see changes and cdk deploy to update!

[@prannoyroy5312]

Finally understood what CDK is all about.. Thank you!

[@BeABetterDev]

You're very welcome

[@arindamroy7671]

For me [windows user], the autocomplete issue was fixed by activating our virtual environment manually (if not done automatically) and then running a pip install -r requirements.txt Thanks

[@roymathew7956]

Thank you for this wonderful introduction. It makes it very clear what CDK is capable of. I was wondering if you could also create users using the CDK. It appears so from the reference documentation

[@abdelhadidjafer7004]

Please do a JS / TS complete backend please please please, i enjoy your way of teaching

[@soumyamishra8734]

Awesome course!!!

[@BeABetterDev]

Thanks Soumya!

[@nathanbenton2051]

also for those that you powershell, instead of using CLEAR, you can use ctrl+l (the lower-case letter "L") instead!

[@mr.roulette7537]

Thank you sir!

[@BeABetterDev]

You're very welcome!

[@mayowaogunleye2487]

Thank you for the great video, can you do an update for the v2

[@mattjm007]

Excellent video

[@BeABetterDev]

Thank you!

[@joanale609]

Do you guys recommend learn aws cdk or going directly to terraform? They looks similar.

[@monirmostafiz2919]

awesome

[@et4493]

Dude... same... I fail that recaptcha at least 5 times in a row, then I always have to resort to the audio one. WTH. 🤣🤣🤣 jokes aside, GREAT resource. Personally I would love some more videos on the topic. I don't find it super easy to transtion from the console to pure code

[@svgnjmqw]

hi dev i tried this in visual code.but getting the below error...could you please help npm install -g aws cdk npm : The term 'npm' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again. At line:1 char:1 + npm install -g aws cdk

[@scottbelliveau6270]

Mine doesn't allow me to use venv as an interpreter and I can't use any command line commands to fix it any recommendations

[@here-i-am2316]

On a Mac, the source.bat file gets created with the Windows code inside. Ultra strange!

[@simoni7013]

Where is the pre requisites in the description?

[@rajeshramachandran9127]

I get traceback error when I give cdk ls, cdk Synth what are the reason

[@ardavanmoinzadeh801]

Daniel... :) After 6 hours of trial and error I got it to work -- Python 3.7 interpreter with CDK 1.129.0 (originally I had Python 3.9 & CDK 2.39 on my machine ..) was the compatible version -- I guess with the new CDK 2.3 and higher there is no need for setup.py & much easier but it was complaining about how I was passing runtime and code asset,etc. .. anyway thank you for amazing content! Do you have more content/labs focused on SQS & Lambda? any guideline is greatly appreciated!!

[@tisanbako]

I am running Python 3.11 but i keep getting error messages that there's syntax error on the asciidoc.py File

[@ajgalosmo8510]

how do i create inbound rule using python in cdk? :(

[@6789temi]

Anyone know why i dont have a setup.py file in myfolder?

[@Tlj10144]

I see that in your VSCode terminal, it says Daniel\AWSSimplified\Video 207. Do you have like a table of contents for your videos in order? This will be beneficial to us who want to learn AWS from beginning to end.

[@zarpjox3r36]

good

[@user-mr6lu9rx7l]

Bravoooo

[@robertochupin9758]

The setup.py doesn't generate for me..... Is there something else I need to do for CDK to generate the setup.py ?

[@adviced8071]

same

[@rajeshramachandran9127]

Do you find answer for this

[@ardavanmoinzadeh801]

Daniel ...I am following your Udemy course on Lambda and there is a hands on at the end using CDK (using our company's account I cannot leave comments there ....) -- I am guessing the error I am getting is due to a version conflict between all the reqs but when I try to bootstrap cdk I get below error message & I can't figure it out.......TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'Runtime'

[@BeABetterDev]

Hi Ardavan, This is likely due to some kind of version upgrade from CDK. Its hard to tell what the root issue is just by that error unfortunately. Is it possible to post the source code to git so I can take a look? Daniel

[@ardavanmoinzadeh801]

regardless of what version of the libraries I pick it complains about RunTime & code parameter

[@chandramoulidasari3946]

Hey Bro! Nice Video Why don't you create a discord server..?

[@chakorau4094]

+1