@victorykit/cdkaffee v1.0.0-alpha.20

cdkaffee - coffee break enabling utilities for AWS CDK

cdkaffee is an asortment of miscelleanous utilities for AWS CDK development.

Offline Development

We use AWS CDK to speed up development, since we are made aware of structural errors in our AWS CloudFormation template without requiring a stack deployment or changeset.

Dynamic References

AWS CDK allows us to create dynamic references (to e.g. S3 bucket object locations), which we would otherwise have to statically define when creating vanilla CloudFormation templates.

Deployment Bootstrapping

AWS CDK and AWS CDK Toolkit are two separate things. We use AWS CDK for authoring CloudFormation templates and the AWS CDK Toolkit for bootstrapping our AWS accounts for deployment, as well as deploying our CloudFormation templates.

AWS CDK MUST NOT BE considered a Software Development Kit, we use it as an AWS CloudFormation template compiler.

Native CloudFormation patterns take precedence over the ease-of-use of AWS CDK L2 and L3 constructs.