Basic example of Nested Stacks

The cdk.json file tells the CDK Toolkit how to execute your app.

Steps

1. Rename the cdk.context.example.json file to cdk.context.json and replace all the values with predefined values for your stack (required).

2. Run yarn (recommended) or npm install

3. Run yarn cdk deploy --profile profileName to deploy the stack to your specified region. You can skip providing the profile name if it is default. You can learn about creating profiles using the aws-cli here.

4. You will notice two stacks created, and one will be a nested stack that holds the EC2 instance and the parent stack the entire VPC setup.

Useful commands

• yarn build compile typescript to js
• yarn watch watch for changes and compile
• yarn test perform the jest unit tests
• yarn cdk deploy deploy this stack to your default AWS account/region
• yarn cdk diff compare deployed stack with current state
• yarn cdk synth emits the synthesized CloudFormation template