WeAreDevelopers Logo WeAreDevelopers
Sign in
For You LIVE
World Congress 2023 • Oct 6, 2023

The power of Cloud Development Kit (CDK): How to get the most out of it

Alexander Bubeck

AWS CDK transforms cloud provisioning by replacing tedious YAML with true software code. Discover how to scale dynamic environments and bypass API blindspots without triggering costly redeployments.

Pause
Mute Enter Fullscreen
#1 about 4 min

Overview of infrastructure as code tools

Exploring the evolution of infrastructure as code and comparing terraform, AWS CDK, and pulumi for cloud environments.

#2 about 3 min

Combining AWS infrastructure and Kubernetes manifests

Using AWS CDK and cdk8s to define both cloud resources and kubernetes configurations in a single pipeline.

#3 about 5 min

Managing large deployments and staging environments

Utilizing CDK staging environments and typescript configurations to isolate and manage complex, multi-environment microservice architectures.

#4 about 5 min

Common pitfalls in multi-stack CDK projects

Strategies for avoiding cloudformation export dependency blocks and resource naming conflicts during multi-stack cloud operations.

#5 about 4 min

Extending AWS CDK with custom resources

Filling functional gaps in the native CDK API by querying the AWS CLI or lambda functions via custom resources.

#6 about 2 min

Improving developer workflows with auxiliary tools

Integrating testing frameworks, code linting tools, security scanners, and AI assistants into developer workflows using typescript.

#7 about 2 min

Choosing between AWS CDK and Terraform

Criteria for selecting an infrastructure tool based on team structure, deployment speed, state management models, and multi-cloud requirements.

#8 about 7 min

Audience Q&A on CDK implementation and automated testing

Addressing developer questions on repository structure, migrating cloudformation resources, unit testing with jest, and sharing data between stacks.

Matching moments

1:36 min

Managing infrastructure as code with AWS CDK

Markus Ziller Markus Ziller · World Congress 2024

1:44 min

Building hierarchical infrastructure constructs with AWS CDK

Markus Ziller Markus Ziller · World Congress 2024

4:19 min

Deep dive into infrastructure as code with deployment kits

Elisabeth Günther Elisabeth Günther · World Congress 2024

3:35 min

Defining a serverless architecture using AWS CDK

Raphael Manke Raphael Manke · World Congress 2023

3:50 min

Introduction to cloud native infrastructure and platform engineering

Christian Strack · LIVE

4:42 min

Fostering team collaboration through common infrastructure abstractions

Chad Carlson · World Congress 2021

More from World Congress 2023

The year 3000, a brief history of Web Development thumbnail
25:30
over 2 years ago

The year 3000, a brief history of Web Development

Lorenzo Pieri

Demografie nutzen um jedem Bewerber das passende Angebot zu machen! thumbnail
8:52
almost 3 years ago

Demografie nutzen um jedem Bewerber das passende Angebot zu machen!

Nathalie Gierth

Guided Memory Management: Rust's Ownership Model thumbnail
0:18
almost 3 years ago

Guided Memory Management: Rust's Ownership Model

Stefan Baumgartner

Passwordless future: WebAuthn and Passkeys in practice thumbnail
32:32
almost 3 years ago

Passwordless future: WebAuthn and Passkeys in practice

Clemens Hübner

External Secrets Operator: the secrets management toolbox for self-sufficient teams thumbnail
30:07
almost 3 years ago

External Secrets Operator: the secrets management toolbox for self-sufficient teams

Moritz Johner

Building Reliable Serverless Applications with AWS CDK and Testing thumbnail
25:18
almost 3 years ago

Building Reliable Serverless Applications with AWS CDK and Testing

Raphael Manke

Upcoming sessions on this topic

Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 25, 2026 · 16:10–16:40

Stage 1

Kubernetes Is Not Your Sandbox

Ivan Burazin

Ivan Burazin CEO and Co-Founder at Daytona

Ivan Burazin
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 16:10–16:40

Stage 4

From Cloud Native to Multi-Cloud Native: Write Once, Deploy Anywhere

Sandeep Pal

Principal Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce

Sandeep Pal
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 25, 2026 · 15:30–16:00

Stage 7

Trust, But Verify: Continuous GPU Validation at Scale

Kyle Bell

VP of AI at TensorWave

Kyle Bell
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 16:10–16:40

Outdoor Stage

Run your agents in Kubernetes: Build once, deploy anywhere. But really?

Michal Salanci

Senior Systems Engineer at ESET Cybersecurity

Michal Salanci
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 11:00–11:30

Stage 1

Application-Defined Compute: Rethinking Infrastructure for AI Applications

Anurag Goel

Founder & CEO of Render

Anurag Goel
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

September 24, 2026 · 17:30–18:00

Stage 4

Boring Failover: Predictable Region Recovery Across 5,000 Microservices

Garvit Kataria, Sahil Sabharwal

Garvit Kataria
Sahil Sabharwal

Related videos

Program your infrastructure with CDK and TypeScript thumbnail
34:39
LIVE • over 5 years ago

Program your infrastructure with CDK and TypeScript

Robert Hoffmann

Stop configuring infrastructure, start coding it! thumbnail
44:13
World Congress 2022 • over 4 years ago

Stop configuring infrastructure, start coding it!

Robert Hoffmann

Building Reliable Serverless Applications with AWS CDK and Testing thumbnail
25:18
World Congress 2023 • almost 3 years ago

Building Reliable Serverless Applications with AWS CDK and Testing

Raphael Manke

Building Applications with Infrastructure as Code thumbnail
28:34
LIVE • over 2 years ago

Building Applications with Infrastructure as Code

Talia Nassi

Building a Cloud Platform Where Everything is Just Another Kubernetes Resource thumbnail
28:49
World Congress 2026 Europe • 3 months ago

Building a Cloud Platform Where Everything is Just Another Kubernetes Resource

Patrick Koss

Unleashing Potential Across Teams: The Power of Infrastructure as Code thumbnail
29:22
World Congress 2024 • about 2 years ago

Unleashing Potential Across Teams: The Power of Infrastructure as Code

Alayshia Knighten

Related articles

From learning to earning

Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.