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

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