To deploy the CDK stack and to establish a tunnel to the RDS instance, follow the steps below: 1. Create a key-pair called "evilton-dev" 2. Store the location of the pem file in the "EVILTON_PEM" environment variable 3. Install dependencies: npm install 4. Deploy CDK stack: cdk deploy 5. Establish a tunnel to access RDS: ./start-tunnel & 6. Fetch the database username and password from AWS Secrets Manager (TsReferenceStackOperational) 7. Connect to the database via 127.0.0.1:5433 8. After the CDK stack is deployed, you can test the app by sending requests to its API endpoint: curl -X POST \ 'https://nk5uqy6el9.execute-api.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/prod/wolfdesk/cases' \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -d '{ "type": "InitSupportCase", "aggregateId": "e0325a40-b1c0-4301-a8b1-474feb37409e", "customer": "327807ac-1611-4642-9ce9-49ee9de0d197", "subject": "NEED HELP!", "messageBody": "My printer is one fire!" }'