IaC Developer Tools CLI for CDK (IDT)
This command line interface tool automates many of the tedious tasks of building, adding to, documenting, and extending AWS CDK applications. It is an opinionated tool that integrates Well-Architected principals of cloud native software design by default.
What is does
- Automates templated build of a basic multi-stack CDK application with integrated security, devops, and pre-formatted documentation.
- Automates templated build of a starter CDK stack
- Automates templated build of a starter CDK construct
- Automates templated build of DevOps tooling for CDK deployment on Github or Gitlab
How to use it
1/ Install the repository globally
To install directly from the git source you can also use the command below. Coming soon this will be available via npm.
npm i -g https://github.com/aws-samples/iac-devtools-cli-for-cdk.git
2/ Check install
npm ls -g
You should see a version of iac-devtools-cli-for-cdk
listed in your node packages.
3/ Navigate to the directory you want to work from
If you are creating a new app you will need to create a new directory to work from
mkdir your-directory-name
cd your-directory-name
If you are adding a construct or stack you will need to navigate to the directory to work from
cd path/of/your/directory
Run the tool!
idt
You should see some options that look like this:
Follow the prompts to:
- Create a whole application
- Create an application stack
- Create an application construct
- Create devops tools
4/ Review what you have created
You will now see a full populated template in your working directory.
๐ How to update
Since this is not yet in a public npm registry the easiest update method right now is to remove and then reinstall ๐ข. We are working on making this a little easier.
๐๏ธ How to remove
npm uninstall -g @aws-energy-solutions/iac-devtools-cli-for-cdk
๐บ๏ธ Planned Features
- Build projects from templates
- CDK Typescript template
- CDK Typescript construct template
- CDK Custom Resource Template
- Github and Gitlab DevOps tools templates
- Run security checks
- BYO template directory