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Getting Started with IaC and AWS CDK

Infrastructure as code (IaC) is the standard practice of defining various infrastructure components using code. You must have heard about a few of these software tools, such as Chef, Puppet, Terraform, or the old-school Bash programming, to set up servers in a predictable way.

The need for IaC was born out of the toolset for spinning up servers circa 2006 lacking the predictability, speed, and agility of the code used in programs that were deployed onto servers. Pre IaC, the normal workflow of deploying something on AWS would be this:

  1. Spinning up Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) servers manually via the dashboard
  2. SSHing into the machines
  3. Copying some Bash configuration files using Secure Copy Protocol (SCP ...

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