aws-solutions-constructs VS serverless

This is helpful! I found some CDK libraries that allows for connecting a load balancer or Cloudfront to WAF with a few lines of code. I'll give it a try! [1] [2].

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1: https://github.com/awslabs/aws-solutions-constructs/tree/mai...

2: https://constructs.dev/search?q=waf&cdk=aws-cdk&cdkver=2&lan...

I have seen the pulumi registry is somewhat similar to construct hub but AWS provides solution construct patterns https://github.com/awslabs/aws-solutions-constructs which are best practice solutions. I did not know about pulumiverse seems more like registry not patterns or well archited solutions.

Take a look at the AWS Solutions Constructs and how they are packaged. I think that's what you're describing. I've packaged dozens of Constructs this way and imo being able to package IaC so easily like this is one of the most under appreciated aspects of the CDK.

I don't know any tutorials that cover all of these, but check out: https://cdkpatterns.com/ for 1) https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/v2/guide/cdk_pipeline.html for 2) 3) and 5) https://docs.aws.amazon.com/serverless-application-model/latest/developerguide/serverless-cdk-testing.html for 4)

I would like to see re-useable design patterns advocated similar to the terraform/terragrunt modules concepts. Encouraging pulumi.ComponentResource definitions multi environment structure, best practices. The cdk guys have something similar https://cdkpatterns.com/.

While writing this post, the four stacks combined are 129 lines of source code. With the help of the CDK Constructs that are being used this translates to over 1k lines of code in CloudFormation. We are only using L2 constructs here – there is way more constructs available that you can use in the Constructs Hub and also a lot of guidance regarding the usage of CDK over at CDKPatterns.

I use the "Lambda-lith" pattern, primarily because I am using Rust and deploying via CI/CD (codepipeline).

Here is a read of common lambda design pattern https://github.com/cdk-patterns/serverless/blob/main/the-lambda-trilogy/README.md

Level 3 constructs are opinionated units of reusable code which often deliver a service. Open source level 3 constructs are available from AWS Solutions Constructs - an extension to the CDK, CDK Patterns - a library of well-architected patterns, Construct Hub - a library of open-source constructs and some even come out of the box with the CDK - these are appended with 'patterns' to make them identifiable. Two examples are shown below: