Ultimate DevOps using AWS CDK - 100% Hands-On (with Python)

Update [8/26/2020]: Please checkout description of RDS Provisioning lecture (#23) for new parameters.

The Ultimate DevOps using AWS CDK - 100% Hands-On course is a comprehensive course on AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) which is based on building and deploying real world project on AWS.

AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is a software development framework for provisioning cloud infrastructure.

Some of the Key Benefits of CDK over other Infrastructure as Code tools are:

1. It can be used with any supported programming language like Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript and C#.

2. No need to learn any additional markup language

3. It is based on Amazon's least privileged model, which means it creates appropriate IAM roles and permissions automatically

4. Few lines of code generates full CloudFormation template which is very convenient

This course is well paced using a real world industry standard project which helps you to learn by doing with full context.

In this course, you will learn how to provision various AWS services like:

• Network and Security: VPC, Subnets,NAT Gateways, Internet Gateways, Subnets, Security Groups, IAM Roles, Encryption Keys

• Storage and Database: S3 Buckets, Aurora MySQL RDS Database, Redis Cluster

• Authorization and Authentication: Cognito User Pools and Identity Pools, API Gateway and Lambda Functions

• Serverless Framework

• Events and Notifications: SNS, CloudWatch

• Build and Release Pipelines: CloudFront, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeCommit, GitHub as source

• DNS and Application Security: Route53, Web Application Firewall (WAF), Amazon Certificate Manager (ACM)

• Logging and Monitoring: ElasticSearch domain, Kibana Dashboard, CloudTrail

• Containers: Amazon EKS

This course enables you to get started in DevOps world with real and meaningful knowledge about several AWS services and integrate them together to make things happen!