devoops-cdktf

DEMO: CDK for Terraform: programming infrastructure in high-level languages

Subject

Pulumi and CDK for Terraform: programming infrastructure in high-level languages

Description

Nowadays Terraform is leading among IaC solutions where its own configuration language HCL (HashiCorp Configuration Language) is widely used. Although this language is pretty simple, it has its own specifics, different types of variables and approach to cycles which is not always evident. Thus, DevOps and developers have to spend time on figuring out its subtleties and opportunities. In their talk the speakers would like to present other way of working with IaC, using different programming languages with Pulumi and cdktf as the example. So, the developers and DevOps may use familiar tools and IDE while working with infrastructure

What's inside?

There are few examples to demonstrate deploy infrastructure like ~~code~~ software without DSL and YAML.

├── ec2-nginx
│   ├── cdktf.json
│   ├── main.ts
│   ├── package.json
│   ├── package-lock.json
│   ├── provision.sh
│   └── tsconfig.json
├── ec2-nginx-terraform
│   ├── main.tf
│   ├── output.tf
│   ├── provider.tf
│   └── provision.sh
├── README.md
└── sh
    ├── cdktf_duration.sh
    └── tf_duration.sh

ec2-nginx

It's a simple example to deploy via CDKTF (typescript)

Deploy EC2 instance
Allow I/O traffic
Setup nginx web-server
Change welcome page

ec2-nginx-terraform

Same as ec2-nginx

Deploy EC2 instance
Allow I/O traffic
Setup nginx web-server
Change welcome page

sh

There are few scripts to measure time deploy Cloud Development Kit for Terraform vs native Terraform

How to run ?

Install requirements
- Terraform v1+
- CDK for Terraform 0.6.4 ( The 0.7.0 CDKTF works unstable )
- Node.js v16
  - npm install -g typescript
- an AWS account and AWS Access Credentials
Move to ec2-nginx and run cdktf deploy

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