AWS CDK – Cloud Development Kit

AWS CDK uses the familiarity and expressive power of programming languages for modeling your applications.

It provides high-level components called constructs that preconfigure cloud resources with proven defaults, so you can build cloud applications with ease.

Prerequisites​

• You have python3 installed and setup locally in your system path, refer to the docs for installation
• You have installed and configured the AWS CDK locally
• Ensure you have all the required AWS permission and configuration locally

Setup​

• First, clone the Kubernetes Goat repository locally by running the following command

git clone https://github.com/madhuakula/kubernetes-goat.git

• Navigate to the folder for setup and installation of the Kubernetes Goat using KiND

cd kubernetes-goat/platforms/aws-kind-ec2-cdk

• Create a virtualenv (Assume you already have installed Python3 and it’s available in the path)

python3 -m venv .venv

• Activate your virtualenv in MacOS & Linux

source .venv/bin/activate

• If you are a Windows platform, you would activate the virtualenv by running following command

% .venv\Scripts\activate.bat