letsfigureout/ec2inventory

This project is the source code for a 3 part series of articles which provide a guide on how to use the AWS CDK.

EC2 Inventory CDK stack

This project is the source code for a 3 part series of articles which provide a guide on how to use the AWS CDK.

Article can be found here:

• Part 1 - https://letsfigureout.com/2020/02/16/a-serverless-ec2-inventory-with-the-aws-cdk-part-1/
• Part 2 - https://letsfigureout.com/2020/02/16/a-serverless-ec2-inventory-with-the-aws-cdk-part-2/
• Part 3 - https://letsfigureout.com/2020/02/16/a-serverless-ec2-inventory-with-the-aws-cdk-part-3/

As per the article this project creates a serverless EC2 inventory application, leveraging the following AWS services:

• Lambda
• CloudWatch Events
• DynamoDB
• SQS

All this is built and deployed using the AWS CDK.

Prerequisites

• AWS CDK >= 1.32.2
• Python >= 3.8

Deploying

Clone repository

$ git clone git@github.com:letsfigureout/ec2inventory.git

Create a virtual environment for the project

$ cd ec2inventory
$ python3 -m virtualenv .env

Install requirements

$ source .env/bin/activate
(.env) $ pip install -r requirements.txt

Deploy stack

(.env) $ cdk deploy

Useful commands

• cdk ls list all stacks in the app
• cdk synth emits the synthesized CloudFormation template
• cdk deploy deploy this stack to your default AWS account/region
• cdk diff compare deployed stack with current state
• cdk docs open CDK documentation