CDK Deploy (to your account)

Bootstrapping an environment

The first time you deploy an AWS CDK app into an environment (account/region), you can install a “bootstrap stack”. This stack includes resources that are used in the toolkit’s operation. For example, the stack includes an S3 bucket that is used to store templates and assets during the deployment process.

You can use the cdk bootstrap command to install the bootstrap stack into an environment:

cdk bootstrap

Then:

 ⏳  Bootstrapping environment aws://123456789012/us-east-1...
...

If you are returned an Access Denied message at this step, verify that you have

configured the AWS CLI correctly cloudformation:CreateChangeSet account/session

Let’s deploy

Use cdk deploy to deploy a CDK app:

cdk deploy

You will first be informed of security-related changes that the CDK is going to perform on your behalf, if there are any security-related changes

Output should look like the following, where ACCOUNT-ID is your account ID, REGION is the region in which you created the app, and STACK-ID is the unique identifier for your stack:

CdkWorkshopStack: deploying...
CdkWorkshopStack: creating CloudFormation changeset...



 ✅  CdkWorkshopStack

Stack ARN:
arn:aws:cloudformation:REGION:ACCOUNT-ID:stack/CdkWorkshopStack/STACK-ID

The CloudFormation Console

CDK apps are deployed through AWS CloudFormation. Each CDK stack maps 1:1 with CloudFormation stack.

This means that you can use the AWS CloudFormation console in order to manage your stacks.

Let’s take a look at the AWS CloudFormation console.

You will likely see something like this (if you don’t, make sure you are in the correct region):

If you select CdkWorkshopStack and open the Resources tab, you will see the physical identities of our resources: