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Re:AWS CloudFormation Best Practices by mikeyjk on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @02:05PM (#26650761)
What would you flag as the biggest differences between the two?
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Re:AWS CloudFormation Best Practices by zoover2020 on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @02:23PM (#26651002)
CDK is managed IaC, allowing compile-time checks and also to debug your infrastructure.

CloudFormation is just JSON or YAML (treated as assembly by CDK, by spitting out a CFN template after synthesis)

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Re:AWS CloudFormation Best Practices by jen20 on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @02:51PM (#26651388)
This is not correct. CDK is not "managed IaC" - the management is done by CloudFormation. CDK is a generator for the JSON or YAML of CloudFormation, which is fully responsible for the execution and management of provisioning.
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Re:AWS CloudFormation Best Practices by zoover2020 on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @03:38PM (#26652070)
I stand corrected, thanks.
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