blog-testing-with-cdk VS cdk-django

So, let’s finally see some code! Below is the CDK snippet that creates the S3 bucket. I’m showing the complete stack here for context but going forward will only show the relevant part. You can find the complete code in this repository which also contains a dedicated tag for each section of this article.

cdk-django

CDK Construct Library: github.com/briancaffey/cdk-django

- Another aspect of my approach that I prefer over the other one is using a high-level construct that you publish and then consume in your project. This requires that you write a construct in TypeScript and then publish it to npm or PyPI. I'm working on a construct library for deploying Django apps with CDK called djagno-cdk, and one of the constructs in it uses ECS Fargate: https://github.com/briancaffey/django-cdk/blob/main/src/django-ecs.ts. Ideally you don't have everything in a single construct though, so I like how Mariano is doing that in his project. My Terraform project does a better job at separating layers of the application, so I need to apply that same principle to django-cdk when I get around to working on that project again.

Sure. My IaC journey actually started out with CloudFormation, and I learned a lot from this reference project: aws-samples/ecs-refarch-cloudformation. Then I picked up CDK when that became available and migrated a project from CloudFormation to CDK. It sounded like a nicer way to handle stacks in a familiar language with lots great one-liners and utility functions and constructs, and it definitely is. I have a similar project written in CDK that is an application/framework-first (Django) approach to learning and doing IaC that you can find here: https://github.com/briancaffey/django-cdk. This implements both ECS and EKS, but my attempts at learning EKS sort of fizzled out for now as I don't have the need to use it, and for the task at hand (running a monolithic Django application on AWS) I think ECS makes a LOT more sense.

I have an example of doing this here, and I posted about this earlier on this sub https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/rj7sj2/deploying_django_applications_to_a_singlenode/

I'm not sure what you mean by "architecture", and I'm not sure what is wrong with trying to save money while learning how to do IaC and CI/CD. My thinking is that I can use some of what I learned here in a more robust setup of a Django app that uses ECS, I'm working on that here: https://github.com/briancaffey/django-cdk/blob/main/src/django-ecs.ts.

Here is on that I’m working on: https://github.com/briancaffey/django-cdk

Here's a link to the repo: https://github.com/briancaffey/django-cdk. This library currently offers high level constructs for EKS as well as ECS. I have previously used ECS for most of the containerized web apps I have worked with, so I'm hoping to use this as a way to compare the two orchestration tools for my use case and gather some best practices. This project includes a companion repo that is included as a git submodule that I have been to do live tests/deployments using my construct library.