CDK Basic - 2

Overview

You should practice the CDK Basic workshop before continuing with this one. You can follow the link CDK Basic Workshop to learn more about CDK. You should also explore to gain some knowledge about API Gateway, Elastic Load Balancer, Elastic Container Service, and Lambda.

Because this practice requires a more complex environment, we will build a completely new EC2 virtual server (as instructed in the Preparation section) instead of using CloudShell like the previous lesson. CDK 2.151.0 will be used. After finishing this practice, you will understand how to:

• Use CDK to create a simple application architecture using API Gateway, Elastic Load Balancer, Elastic Container Service, and Lambda.
• Use “nested stacks” with CDK.

This is the architectural model that CDK will build: