✅ AWS CDK LAMBDA CMS PROVIDER DATASETS DOWNLOAD ✅

The initial challenge can be found at: CMS_providers_data_download_instructions.pdf.

This is a custom cloud-native solution deployed on AWS with the following specifications:

• Infrastructure as Code with AWS CDK
• Source Code with AWS Lambda Functions built with Python Runtime
• Deployment Strategies: CDK commands (please read the important_commands.sh script).

The information of this repository is based on many online resources, so feel free to use it as a guide for your future projects!.

AWS CDK ☁️

AWS Cloud Development Kit is an amazing open-source software development framework to programmatically define cloud-based applications with familiar languages.

My personal opinion is that you should learn about CDK when you feel comfortable with cloud-based solutions with IaC on top of AWS Cloudformation. At that moment, I suggest that if you need to enhance your architectures, it's a good moment to use these advanced approaches.

The best way to start is from the Official AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) v2 Documentation.

Dependencies 🚦

The dependencies are explained in detail for each project, but the most important ones are Python and AWS-CDK.

My advice is to primary understand the basics on how CDK works, and then, develop amazing projects with this incredible AWS tool!.

Software dependencies (based on project)

• Visual Studio Code
  Visual Studio Code is my main code editor for high-level programming. This is not absolutely necessary, but from my experience, it gives us a great performance and we can link it with Git and GitHub easily.
  

• Docker
  Docker is a platform designed to help developers build, share, and run modern applications. It uses OS-level virtualization techniques to deliver software packages known as "containers". It is used in this project as one of the building tools for creating the Lambda-function Docker images that will run the automation.
  

• Python
  Python is an amazing dynamic programming language that let us work fast, with easy and powerful integration of different software solutions.
  

Libraries and Package dependencies (based on project)

• CDK CLI (Toolkit)
  To work with the CDK, it is important to install the main toolkit as a NodeJs global dependency. Then, feel free to install the specific language AWS-CDK library (for example: aws-cdk.core.
  

• Selenium (Python-based)
  The selenium package is used to automate web browser interaction from Python. It is one of the core components for Web-Scrapping tools. My advice is to only use Selenium if it is really needed (e.g. advanced web interactions).
  

Usage 💫

All projects are well commented/documented and most of them have specifications and remarks for their purpose and I/O.

I will be uploading most of the files, and try to keep it as clean as possible.

Special thanks 🎁

• Thanks to all contributors of the great OpenSource projects that I am using.
  

Author 🎹

Santiago Garcia Arango

Senior DevOps Engineer passionate about advanced cloud-based solutions and deployments in AWS. I am convinced that today's greatest challenges must be solved by people that love what they do.