AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) Essentials

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Course description

In this introductory course, you will learn about the products, services, and common solutions around the AWS Cloud Development Kit. You will learn the basics around infrastructure as code, concepts and decision support for infrastructure as code, and how to build infrastructure with the AWS Cloud Development Kit. For more information and outlines, see the course content.

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn:

• What is infrastructure as code
• Concepts and decision guidelines for infrastructure as code frameworks.
• Building Infrastructure with the AWS Cloud Development Kit

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

• Developers
• System administrators
• DevOps team members

Activities

This course includes:

• Training with instructor
• Practical exercises. Bookable as TypeScript and Python course. For in-house training C#, Java or GO is also possible.
• Knowledge queries

Course duration / Price

• 1 day / € 750.00 (excl. tax) per person (DE)

Course outline

Module 1: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Overview

• What is IaC
• Introduction and comparison of CloudFormation, Terraform, and CDK.
• Conceptual differences between the frameworks

Module 2: Developing with the Cloud Development Kit

• Architecture of the CDK
• Abstraction with constructs
• How to get started with the CDK

Module 3: Development process

• Initialization
• Project start
• Test stages

Module 4: VPC and IAM with the CDK

• Creating network infrastructure with the CDK
• Rights management
• EC2 instances

IMPORTANT: Please bring your notebook (Windows, Linux or Mac) to our trainings. If this is not possible, please contact us in advance.

Course materials are in English, on request also in German (if available).
Course language is German, on request also in English.