My Infrastructure as Code Rosetta Stone - Deploying the same web application on AWS ECS Fargate with CDK, Terraform and Pulumi

• cdk-django

  10 46 5.1 TypeScript

  A CDK library that provides high-level constructs for hosting Django applications on AWS

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

• pulumi-aws-django

  2 7 4.2 TypeScript

  A Pulumi package for deploying Django applications to AWS using ECS Fargate and other managed services

Pulumi Component Library: github.com/briancaffey/pulumi-aws-django

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• django-step-by-step

  23 167 8.7 Python

  A Django + Vue reference project that focuses on developer tooling and CI/CD + IaC

Mono repo with a sample Django micro blogging app (μblog) and frontend app (Vue SPA written with Quasar), GitHub Action workflows for infrastructure and (separate) application deployment pipelines, IaC code that consumes each of the libraries listed above, VuePress documentation site and miscellaneous items (k6 load testing scripts, Cypress tests, docker-compose, etc.): github.com/briancaffey/django-step-by-step

• jsii

  33 2,553 9.4 TypeScript

  jsii allows code in any language to naturally interact with JavaScript classes. It is the technology that enables the AWS Cloud Development Kit to deliver polyglot libraries from a single codebase!

  

cdk-django and pulumi-aws-django are both written in TypeScript. terraform-aws-django is written in HCL, a domain specific language created by HashiCorp. The cdk-django is published to both npm and PyPI, so you can use it in JavaScript, TypeScript and Python projects, other languages are supported as well, but you need to write your library in TypeScript so it can be transpiled to other languages using jsii.

• pulumi-component-provider-ts-boilerplate

  1 24 6.4 Go
  

My Pulumi library is written in TypeScript and is published to NPM. For now it can only be used in JavaScript and TypeScript projects. There is a way in Pulumi to write in any language and then publish to any other major language, but I haven't done this yet. See this GitHub repo for more information on this.

• projen

  19 2,472 9.7 TypeScript

  Rapidly build modern applications with advanced configuration management

  

cdk-django uses projen for maintaining the changelog and bumping versions and publishing to npm. It is popular among developers in the CDK community and is a really awesome tool since it basically uses one file (.projenrc.ts) to configure your entire repo, including files like tsconfig.json, package.json, and even GitHub Action workflows. It has a lot of configuration options, but I'm using it in a pretty simple way. It generates a new release and items to the changelog when I manually trigger a GitHub Action.

• aws-tags-example

  2 17 5.7 C#

  An example of enforcing AWS tagging policies, as well as auto-tagging

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• ecs-refarch-cloudformation

  5 1,675 0.0 Makefile

  Discontinued A reference architecture for deploying containerized microservices with Amazon ECS and AWS CloudFormation (YAML)

  

I first started out with IaC following this project aws-samples/ecs-refarch-cloudformation (which is pretty old at this point) and wrote a lot of CloudFormation by hand. The pain of doing that lead me to explore the CDK with Python. I learned TypeScript by rewriting the Python CDK code I wrote in TypeScript. I later worked with a team that was more experienced in Terraform and learned how to use that. I feel like Pulumi takes the best of the two tools and has a really great developer experience. There is a little bit of a learning curve with Pulumi, and you give up some of the simplicity of Terraform.

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