AWS Infrastructure as Code for Software Developers

Leverage your existing programming skills to deploy infrastructure. Explore a real-world architecture, and see how to write the code to deploy it using AWS CDK and Python.

Introduction

• Infrastructure is code
• What you should know

1. CloudFormation Infrastructure

• What is the AWS Cloud Development Kit?
• VPC and subnets
• Routing
• Security groups
• Servers and load balancers

2. Setting Up the AWS CDK

• Cloud9 IDE and AWS CDK installation
• AWS CDK setup
• Creating your CDK project
• Running and verifying your infrastructure

3. Writing Infrastructure as Code in Python

• CDK networking
• Validating your deployed subnets
• Auto Scaling and server configuration
• Load balancer and listener
• Full deployment validation

Conclusion

• Takeaways