Название: Ultimate AWS CDK for Infrastructure Automation: Extract the Full Potential of AWS CDK for Seamless Infrastructure Automation of Your Cloud with Practical Examples, Best Practices, and Expert Tips
Автор: Anish Kumar
Издательство: Orange Education Pvt Ltd, AVA
Год: 2025
Страниц: 278
Язык: английский
Формат: epub (true)
Размер: 10.1 MB

Transform IaC with AWS CDK to Simplify, Secure, and Scale Your Cloud.

Key Features:
- Build scalable cloud infrastructures with AWS CDK, from basics to mastery.
- Simplify and optimize infrastructure as code with AWS CDK tools.
- Learn AWS CDK hands-on with tutorials, examples, and proven practices.

Book Description:
The AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) transforms infrastructure automation, empowering developers to simplify, optimize, and scale cloud operations. As cloud infrastructure plays a vital role in modern applications, mastering AWS CDK is a critical skill for developers and DevOps professionals. "Ultimate AWS CDK for Infrastructure Automation" equips you with practical skills to harness its full potential.

This book introduces Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and AWS CDK fundamentals, guiding you through core concepts like stacks, constructs, environments, and resources. You'll learn to build multi-stack projects, configure CI/CD pipelines, and apply best practices for modular and reusable code.

Each chapter delivers practical insights and expert tips, from setup to advanced topics like custom resources and performance tuning. Key takeaways include mastering CDK constructs, managing cross-stack resources, creating CI/CD pipelines, and refining testing and troubleshooting skills.

The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is an open-source software development framework designed to define cloud infrastructure in code and provision it through AWS CloudFormation. Unlike traditional Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools that use JSON or YAML, AWS CDK allows developers to use familiar high-level programming languages such as TypeScript, jаvascript, Python, Java, Go, and C#. This approach makes it easier to define cloud resources in a more expressive and programmatically rich way.

The primary purpose of AWS CDK is to enable developers to build and manage their AWS infrastructure using the full power of programming languages. This capability includes leveraging loops, conditions, functions, and more, providing a level of abstraction that simplifies the complexities of cloud infrastructure management. AWS CDK compiles the high-level code into CloudFormation templates, which are then used to deploy the resources.

Pulumi is an open-source IaC platform that allows users to define and manage cloud infrastructure using general-purpose programming languages such as jаvascript, TypeScript, Python, Go, and C#. Pulumi offers a code-centric approach to IaC, enabling developers to leverage existing programming knowledge and tooling to manage infrastructure.

By the end of this book, you’ll have the expertise to design, deploy, and manage scalable, automated cloud infrastructures. Whether you're new to AWS CDK or looking to refine your skills, this book provides a roadmap to mastering infrastructure automation and driving cloud innovation.

What you will learn:
- Design secure, scalable cloud architectures using AWS CDK.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with TypeScript for AWS.
- Build, deploy, and manage multi-stack cloud projects efficiently.
- Integrate CI/CD pipelines for automated cloud infrastructure provisioning.
- Optimize cloud deployments for cost, performance, and security.
- Debug, test, and enhance CDK apps using industry best practices.

Who is this book for?
This book is tailored for software developers, DevOps engineers, cloud architects, and IT professionals looking to automate infrastructure using AWS CDK. Whether you're a beginner in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) or an intermediate user, this guide offers a structured learning path. A basic understanding of cloud computing, AWS services, and some programming experience (preferably in TypeScript) is recommended. No prior AWS CDK knowledge is required, as the book starts with the fundamentals and progresses to advanced techniques.

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