# cdk8s

> This is the core library of Cloud Development Kit (CDK) for Kubernetes (cdk8s). cdk8s apps synthesize into standard Kubernetes manifests which can be applied to any Kubernetes cluster.

Latest version **2.70.108** (published 2026-10-02) · Apache-2.0 license · 0 weekly downloads

## Install

```sh
npm install cdk8s
pnpm add cdk8s
yarn add cdk8s
bun add cdk8s
```

## Health

**Score 70/100 (B)** — status: active.

Positive: has types; no vulnerabilities; has provenance; recently updated; high maintenance score; high quality score.

Warnings: low downloads; no esm support.

## Facts

| | |
|---|---|
| Version | 2.70.108 |
| Published | 2026-10-02 |
| First published | 2020-03-03 |
| Weekly downloads | 0 |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| TypeScript types | bundled |
| Module format | CommonJS |
| Node | >= 16.20.0 |
| Dependencies | 3 |
| Unpacked size | 1.7 MB |
| Known vulnerabilities | 0 |
| Install scripts | no |
| Provenance | attested (GitHub Actions) |
| GitHub stars | 87 |
| Author | Amazon Web Services |
| Maintainers | cdk8s-team |
| Keywords | cdk, configuration, constructs, containers, k8s, kubernetes, microservices |

## Links

- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/cdk8s
- Repository: https://github.com/cdk8s-team/cdk8s-core
- Homepage: https://github.com/cdk8s-team/cdk8s-core#readme
- Issues: https://github.com/cdk8s-team/cdk8s-core/issues
- npm.io page: https://npm.io/package/cdk8s

## Dependencies (3)

- [yaml](https://npm.io/package/yaml.md) 2.9.1
- [fast-json-patch](https://npm.io/package/fast-json-patch.md) ^3.1.1
- [follow-redirects](https://npm.io/package/follow-redirects.md) ^1.16.1

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## Recent versions

- 2.70.108 (latest) — 2026-10-02
- 1.63.145 (latest-1) — 2025-01-06
- 2.70.107 — 2026-10-02
- 2.70.106 — 2026-09-28
- 2.70.105 — 2026-09-27
- 2.70.104 — 2026-09-21
- 2.70.103 — 2026-09-14
- 2.70.102 — 2026-09-12
- 2.70.101 — 2026-09-07
- 2.70.100 — 2026-09-01
- 2.70.99 — 2026-08-31
- 2.70.98 — 2026-08-29
- 2.70.97 — 2026-08-28
- 2.70.96 — 2026-08-25
- 2.70.95 — 2026-08-24
- … 1985 more at https://npm.io/package/cdk8s/versions

## README

# cdk8s

### Cloud Development Kit for Kubernetes

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**cdk8s** is a software development framework for defining Kubernetes
applications using rich object-oriented APIs. It allows developers to leverage
the full power of software in order to define abstract components called
"constructs" which compose Kubernetes resources or other constructs into
higher-level abstractions.

> **Note:** This repository is the "core library" of cdk8s, with logic for synthesizing Kubernetes manifests using the [constructs framework](https://github.com/aws/constructs). It is published to NPM as [`cdk8s`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/cdk8s) and should not be confused with the cdk8s command-line tool [`cdk8s-cli`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/cdk8s-cli). For more general information about cdk8s, please see [cdk8s.io](https://cdk8s.io), or visit the umbrella repository located at [cdk8s-team/cdk8s](https://github.com/cdk8s-team/cdk8s).

## Documentation

See [cdk8s.io](https://cdk8s.io).

## License

This project is distributed under the [Apache License, Version 2.0](./LICENSE).

This module is part of the [cdk8s project](https://github.com/cdk8s-team/cdk8s).

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