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AWS CDK in Practice

You're reading from   AWS CDK in Practice Unleash the power of ordinary coding and streamline complex cloud applications on AWS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801812399
Length 196 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: An Introduction to AWS CDK
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with IaC and AWS CDK FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: A Starter Project and Core Concepts 4. Part 2: Practical Cloud Development with AWS CDK
5. Chapter 3: Building a Full Stack Application with CDK 6. Chapter 4: Complete Web Application Deployment with AWS CDK 7. Chapter 5: Continuous Delivery with CDK-Powered Apps 8. Chapter 6: Testing and Troubleshooting AWS CDK Applications 9. Part 3: Serverless Development with AWS CDK
10. Chapter 7: Serverless Application Development with AWS CDK 11. Chapter 8: Streamlined Serverless Development 12. Part 4: Advanced Architectural Concepts
13. Chapter 9: Indestructible Serverless Application Architecture (ISAA) 14. Chapter 10: The Current CDK Landscape and Outlook 15. Index 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

CDK for other platforms

In Chapter 9, when we covered the advantages and disadvantages of ISAA, we promised that we would cover some CDK-like libraries out there that are on the path to promoting openness in the serverless field. Let’s first cover some CDK alternatives.

Pulumi

Pulumi (https://www.pulumi.com/) is the most complete CDK alternative we’ve seen. Its API is slightly different from CDK, but at the end of the day, it produces the same results on AWS. Like CDK, it’s an Apache-licensed open source project with a service, and its cost is based on the number of L2 or L3 components Pulumi manages for you. But it comes with a great advantage: as well as targeting AWS, it targets Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure, and Kubernetes. We believe they might even add more cloud providers to the list in the future.

Which came first?

CDK was released in 2018, earlier than Pulumi. But Pulumi as a company was established a year earlier than CDK’s release...

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