AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) Example to Deploy EC2 and VPC Resources

This example demonstrates how to use the AWS CDK to deploy a VPC with subnets, security groups and EC2 instances. We will be building the following.

Prerequisites

You will need the following prerequisites installed in order to build and deploy the this project.

Node.js

The AWS CDK uses Node.js (>= 10.3.0). To install Node.Js, follow the instructions in the Node.js website.

Typescript

This project is developed in Typescript. Install Typescript using the following command.

npm install -g typescript

Verify that Typescript was installed correctly.

tsc --version

AWS CLI

The AWS CLI is a tool to manage your AWS services from a terminal session. Follow the steps to install the AWS CLI here.

AWS CDK

Install the AWS CDK using the following command.

npm install -g aws-cdk

Verify that the AWS CDK was installed correctly.

cdk --version

Build

Install npm modules

npm install

Compile typescript to js

npm run build

Deploy this stack to your default AWS account/region

cdk deploy

Useful commands

• npm run build compile typescript to js
• npm run watch watch for changes and compile
• npm run test perform the jest unit tests
• cdk deploy deploy this stack to your default AWS account/region
• cdk diff compare deployed stack with current state
• cdk synth emits the synthesized CloudFormation template

Cleanup

cdk destroy

Accompanying blog post

https://www.nickthecloudguy.com/aws-cdk-vpc/