AWS Cloud Development Kit

This lab provides you with an overview of the AWS CDK.

Level

Intermediate

Duration

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Create new AWS CDK applications
• Define your application's infrastructure using the AWS Construct Library
• Deploy your AWS CDK applications to your AWS account
• Define your own reusable constructs
• Perform a test on a construct

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

• Developers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• Familiar with the command line/terminal and basic navigation of the AWS Management Console

Course Outline

• Task 1: Configure AWS CDK credentials
• Task 2: Review the empty AWS CDK project in your working directory
• Task 3: Add the Lambda directory and hello.js file
• Task 4: Add a Lambda function to your stack
• Task 5: Bootstrap the environment in the terminal
• Task 6: Deploy the stack
• Task 7: Review stacks in the CloudFormation console
• Task 8: Test the Lambda function
• Task 9: Add the LambdaRestApi construct to your stack
• Task 10: View upcoming changes
• Task 11: Deploy the stack
• Task 12: Test your application
• Task 13: Create the HitCounter construct
• Task 14: Create HitCounter Lambda handler
• Task 15: Add resources to the hit counter construct
• Task 16: Add a hit counter to your stack
• Task 17: Grant permissions to allow Lambda to read and write to DynamoDB
• Task 18: Deploy updates to your stack and test
• Task 19: Testing constructs
• Task 20: Clean up resources