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There are many tools to pick and choose from when it comes to implementing Infrastructure as Code; Puppet, Chef and Ansible just to name a few. Hashicorp's Terraform is one that shines exceptionally bright on the IaC firmament. Despite just reaching the v1, it is a mature and battle-tested tool that has been used by both big and small in recent years.
One apparent limitation of the CDK is that, at least for the nonce, it can only be used with AWS (there are two notable projects in the work right now that will greatly expand CDK's reach: cdk8s and cdktf). With Terraform you can use choose from a plethora of providers. Hell, I was able to set up my home network running on Unifi Dream Machine using Terraform. How cool is that?!
PS. Pulumi, which I haven't fiddled with yet but definitely will, deserves an honorable mention in this little digression of mine, since it might be just the right mix of Terraform's providers and CDK's general-purpose languages support.
One apparent limitation of the CDK is that, at least for the nonce, it can only be used with AWS (there are two notable projects in the work right now that will greatly expand CDK's reach: cdk8s and cdktf). With Terraform you can use choose from a plethora of providers. Hell, I was able to set up my home network running on Unifi Dream Machine using Terraform. How cool is that?!
There are many tools to pick and choose from when it comes to implementing Infrastructure as Code; Puppet, Chef and Ansible just to name a few. Hashicorp's Terraform is one that shines exceptionally bright on the IaC firmament. Despite just reaching the v1, it is a mature and battle-tested tool that has been used by both big and small in recent years.
One apparent limitation of the CDK is that, at least for the nonce, it can only be used with AWS (there are two notable projects in the work right now that will greatly expand CDK's reach: cdk8s and cdktf). With Terraform you can use choose from a plethora of providers. Hell, I was able to set up my home network running on Unifi Dream Machine using Terraform. How cool is that?!
One apparent limitation of the CDK is that, at least for the nonce, it can only be used with AWS (there are two notable projects in the work right now that will greatly expand CDK's reach: cdk8s and cdktf). With Terraform you can use choose from a plethora of providers. Hell, I was able to set up my home network running on Unifi Dream Machine using Terraform. How cool is that?!
I recommend installing it with NVM, e.g.:
➜ ping-me-cdk-example$ cdk init app --language=typescript Applying project template app for typescript # Welcome to your CDK TypeScript project! This is a blank project for TypeScript development with CDK. The `cdk.json` file tells the CDK Toolkit how to execute your app. ## Useful commands * `npm run build` compile typescript to js * `npm run watch` watch for changes and compile * `npm run test` perform the jest unit tests * `cdk deploy` deploy this stack to your default AWS account/region * `cdk diff` compare deployed stack with current state * `cdk synth` emits the synthesized CloudFormation template Executing npm install... npm WARN deprecated request@2.88.2: request has been deprecated, see https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142 npm WARN deprecated request[email protected]: request-promise-native has been deprecated because it extends the now deprecated request package, see https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142 npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: this library is no longer supported npm notice created a lockfile as package-lock.json. You should commit this file. npm WARN [email protected] No repository field. npm WARN [email protected] No license field. ✅ All done!