DevOps.js

DevOps.js Conf 2024

Imagine starting as an AWS DevOps engineer in a small company. Your boss wants an all-in AWS approach, with CICD entirely on AWS for automated deployments. Use AWS CDK for creating a pipeline, stages, and actions. Learn how to handle multiple pipelines for different accounts and handle manual approval for staging and production environments. Discover how to trigger pipelines with EventBridge and Lambda, and create sophisticated pipelines for different scenarios.

Many companies are going all-in AWS and thus adopting their complete CodeSuite for their CI/CD processes. However, while CodePipeline is the platform for this process, it may not be the most user-friendly. In a Monorepo setup, it's typical to create multiple CI/CD pipelines for each package. However, there are several caveats to be aware of. For instance, you may encounter scenarios where multiple pipelines get triggered even if you just modified one file, or you may question the need to create multiple branches for each pipeline. In this talk, we provide valuable tips for building a sophisticated CodePipeline using CDK in a Monorepo environment. The techniques discussed in this talk are also transferrable to other CI/CD tools.

Building a sophisticated CodePipeline with CDK in a Monorepo Setup

John Nguyen

DevOps.js Conf 2022

AWS CDK is a concept that allows you to use coding languages to create infrastructure as code, making it more flexible and powerful than traditional config languages. CDK offers benefits such as improved developer experience, multi-regional deployments, and a programmatic approach to infrastructure as code. It is a suitable choice for AWS users, particularly those familiar with CloudFormation. CDK can be used to migrate from CloudFormation to a more efficient and user-friendly infrastructure management tool. CDK also provides drift detection and supports multi-region deployment, making it a popular choice for managing infrastructure on AWS.

CDK is growing in popularity in the AWS ecosystem, and is set to be the successor of CloudFormation, being built natively for the configuration of AWS resources. Learn how this is a game changer for NodeJS programmers &amp; stacks. <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

Enter CDK: What this Means for the World of IaC

Roy Tal

Node Congress

Node Congress 2021

The AWS CDK is an infrastructure as code tool that supports multiple programming languages and helps mitigate concerns about vendor lock-in. It uses JSII to support different languages and allows you to write code once and get the same API across different languages. The CDK simplifies resource creation and management in AWS, addressing the verbosity and error-proneness of CloudFormation. CDK applications consist of apps and stacks, with stacks mapping to CloudFormation stacks. The CDK provides a more compact and familiar syntax compared to CloudFormation, making it easier for JavaScript developers to handle the entire stack.

For years AWS has offered CloudFormation as an approach to Infrastructure as Code (IaC). CloudFormation allows application stacks to be provisioned from JSON or YAML formatted templates. Unfortunately, due to their size and complexity, CloudFormation templates have earned a reputation as being unwieldy to work with. The AWS Cloud Development Kid (CDK) mitigates some of the complexity associated with CloudFormation allowing developers to programmatically define their cloud architecture using familiar high-level languages such as JavaScript and TypeScript. CDK projects can then be deployed via CloudFormation, while retaining all of the benefits of CloudFormation, such as repeatable deployments and drift detection. This talk will introduce the CDK in the context of Node.js and demonstrate how it can be leveraged to provision cloud native architectures. <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

Introduction to the AWS CDK: Infrastructure as Node

Colin Ihrig

React Summit

React Summit 2020

This Talk provides an introduction to JavaScript and React, as well as insights into building real-time serverless GraphQL APIs with TypeScript, AppSync, and CDK. It covers the concepts of GraphQL schema, data sources, and resolvers, as well as the use of GraphQL subscriptions for real-time communication. The Talk also highlights the features of AppSync and CDK for building APIs and infrastructure. It concludes with a demonstration of creating an API with CDK and AppSync, including the creation of Lambda functions and DynamoDB tables.

CDK (Cloud development kit) enables developers to build cloud infrastructure using popular programming languages like Python, Typescript, or JavaScript. CDK is a next-level abstraction in infrastructure as code, allowing developers who were traditionally unfamiliar with cloud computing to build scalable APIs and web services using their existing skillset, and do so in only a few lines of code. In this talk, you’ll learn how to use the TypeScript flavor of CDK to build a hyper-scalable real-time API with GraphQL, Lambda, DynamoDB, and AWS AppSync . At the end of the talk, I’ll live code an API from scratch in just a couple of minutes and then test out queries, mutations, and subscriptions. By the end of the talk, you should have a good understanding of GraphQL, AppSync, and CDK and be ready to build an API in your next project using TypeScript and CDK. <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1"> </a>

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