Runtime code packaging & deployment

[rix0rrr]

Vision

When I consume a library in my CDK project which contains runtime code, my workflow looks exactly like it looks today. This means that when cdk deploy my application, the runtime code will be automatically and transparently bundled and deployed.

When I write CDK libraries/apps, I can naturally add runtime code to it and CDK constructs can be used to reference it for execution on various compute platforms. Also, referencing CDK values from runtime code should be as strongly-typed and compile-time enforced as possible. This might mean that CDK will generate code.

Thoughts on Design and Staging

There's probably some plugin architecture behind this that allows us to build adapters for various compute platforms and various programming languages (when it comes to bundling). We should look into how existing solutions (e.g. SAM, Serverless, Terraform, Pulumi) approach this problem.
A number of resources require build & upload of source local to the CDK repo.