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Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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The Stainless SDK Generator
What about jsii? The technology behind AWS sdks: https://aws.github.io/jsii/
Is Stainless similar, different?
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AWS Makes Cloud Formation Stack Creation Up to 40% Faster
The libraries for other supported languages of CDK are built as wrappers for underlying JS or maybe TS code via https://github.com/aws/jsii
So all the core CDK code is written first in JS/TS and then stubs for the other languages are added
Unfortunately this is often done without consideration for how the other supported langs actually work, and artefacts of e.g. JS lack of support for kwargs leak through
This is why e.g. the typing in CDK Python is completely broken - pretty much uniformly the concrete types like "Resource" don't implement their corresponding interface like "IResource" (to a type checker)
(There are many other typing niggles like this but that's the most egregious and pervasive one)
At the end of the day, having to explicitly cast concrete types as their interface to satisfy type checker is a minor annoyance, albeit a stupid one that could have been avoided with more care in the core library.
I could live with that, but I encountered so many bugs and issues trying to use CDK on current project that it's now much clearer to me why every company I worked at previously was using Terraform.
Pretty sure some of those issues are ultimately CloudFormation ones. The cumbersome CF > CDK JS > CDK Python stack is great for obfuscating errors and making debugging hard or impossible though.
Pulumi do something similar, albeit with Go as the core language and Terraform underneath. From what I've seen with a little use they have a much more successful result though, Pulumi Python was not a complete mess, and deploys faster and more reliable with better error feedback. I guess they just took more care to get it right.
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Infrastructure Manager: Provision Google Cloud Resources with Terraform
Every version of the CDK uses an interop layer and runs on top of the Typescript version
https://github.com/aws/jsii
And as far as TF supports services before CFT. Guess which is easier for an AWS employee to do - getting the CF service team to support a new service or just contribute to Terraform’s open source project?
I know of at least one service where the service team introduced the needed APIs and then an employee of AWS wrote the TF provider and contributed to the project before AWS’s own internal team added it to CFT.
Source: former AWS ProServe employee
- JSii allows code in any language to naturally interact with JavaScript classes
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Cloud, why so difficult? 🤷♀️
To "meet developers where they are" is a beautiful tenet of AWS, and of the CDK, and inspired us to create awesome technology such as JSII and constructs.
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Automating AWS API gateways v1 REST
Yeah both CDKTF and Pulumi piggyback on JSII, a class translator that supports the languages you've mentioned, which was used as a building base for CDK.
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New open-source programming language for DevOps engineers by the creator of the CDK
The reason we chose to start with compilation to JavaScript and not some other popular cloud language is because JavaScript is currently one of the most used ones, and in addition, we are using JSII to write our SDK in Typescript and then export it for consumption in other languages, such as Go, Python, Java and others.
- Write SDK “base” in Rust, wrap in other languages?
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CDKTF Frequently Asked Questions
The CDKTF CLI is implemented in TypeScript. Providers and resources are implemented in TypeScript as well. jsii is used to compile the providers and resources to the supported languages.
- 10 things about AWS CDK
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- Projen
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Create a Next.js Server Component S3 Picture Uploader with SST
I recently started exploring SST as an alternative to my favorite full-stack set consisting of Projen, AWS CDK, and React. I have been thoroughly impressed with the experience so far. In this article, I will demonstrate how to create a Next.js App Router S3 Picture Uploader using SST.
- How do you deal with CI, project config, etc. falling out of sync across repos?
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Custom BluePrints in CodeCatalyst – templated projects that empower you to build better software
Custom Blue Prints are powered by Projen under the hood – to learn more about Projen, please look here. Similar to a projen.rc.ts you will need to create a blueprint.ts file in the src folder of your BluePrint project. There you can then define the rules and automations which will be applied when the BluePrint is used as a starting point for a new project. Currently the Custom BluePrint SDK allows you to define Wizard configurations, Workflows, Environments, Source Repositories, Pre-Configured Dev Environments, … Using Projen as an underying technology the team is able to re-generate the code for your project and create a pull request on your behalf for the source repository of your project i there is changes. And this is great!
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Can GitHub templates be used for more than just replication?
Or if you like a declarative approach you could look into Projen: https://github.com/projen/projen
- Why is it so hard to write a scaffolding tool?
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Projen - External Project Types
If you goto the main projen README.md, you'll see these instructions for using your new module:
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Building CDK Construct Library, CDK App and CDK Pipelines using Projen
Projen
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Suggested reading or videos on how to properly structure your Git repository for things like CloudFormation, and other IAC implementations?
Checkout https://github.com/projen/projen
- Projen: The Next CDK Suprise!
What are some alternatives?
Pulumi - Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language. Build infrastructure intuitively on any cloud using familiar languages 🚀
projen - Rapidly build modern applications with advanced configuration management
nodenv - Manage multiple NodeJS versions.
middy - 🛵 The stylish Node.js middleware engine for AWS Lambda 🛵
taskcat - Test all the CloudFormation things! (with TaskCat)
aws-cdk - The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code
projen-cdk-tutorial-part-3 - Using Projen to Build CDK Pipelines To Launch Fargate App
aws-sdk-js-v3 - Modularized AWS SDK for JavaScript.
gh-parallel - P6 Github CLI Extension to supercharge cloning/syncing with parallelism
cdk8s - Define Kubernetes native apps and abstractions using object-oriented programming [Moved to: https://github.com/cdk8s-team/cdk8s]
projen-cdk-tutorial-part-1 - Using Projen to Build and Publish CDK Construct Library on Github Releases, Npm, Pypi, Nugget and Maven