Congratulations! #

You’ve successfully finished our Introduction to the CDK workshop!

In this workshop, you’ve learned how to:

• Create a new CDK project in TypeScript using cdk init
• Add resources to your CDK application stack
• Use cdk diff and cdk deploy to deploy your app to an AWS environment
• Author and use your own custom construct (HitCounter)
• Consume a construct from another npm module (cdk-dynamo-table-viewer)
• Use the AWS Lambda, API Gateway and DynamoDB AWS construct libraries

What’s next? #

The AWS CDK is a work in progress. It is currently in Developer Preview. We’d love to hear what you think about every aspect of the framework.

Here are a few things you can do from here:

• Build something: build something real with the CDK and let us know how it went. What worked? What was intuitive? What was completely misleading?
• Publish construct libraries: start thinking about infrastructure in terms of small reusable modules instead of monolithic templates. Pick up a useful thing you’ve built and try to design a beautiful API for it. Share it with the community and let us know about it. We’ll be curating a list of constructs, and would love to list yours.
• Create a simple app in the Hello World Tutorial with the CDK in one of the supported languages: Java, .NET, JavaScript and TypeScript
• Dive deeper into CDK Concepts: Constructs, Apps and Stacks, Logical IDs, Environments, Contexts, and Assets
• Explore the AWS Construct Library and the reference documentation which already contains constructs for many AWS resources such as EC2, AutoScaling, S3, SNS, SQS, CodePipeline, Step Functions and many more…
• Read guidelines on how to write your own constructs
• Learn about jsii, the technology behind the CDK’s multi-language support
• Browse some examples on our GitHub repository

• Join the conversation on our Gitter channel
• Ask questions on Stack Overflow
• Raise an issue on GitHub
• Learn how to submit contributions to the project.