Infrastructure As Code

AWS CDK: attach permissions to existing role

The great thing about AWS CDK is that it handles a lot of things under the hood for you. This includes IAM permissioning.

What if you need to extend the permissions of a service role that’s created by CDK for a resource that…

AWS CDK: ‘Bucket named X exists, but not in account Y. Wrong account?’

So you’re trying to deploy a cdk app and you come across

Bucket named X exists, but not in account Y. Wrong account?'

AWS CDK: synth, but don’t print

When you run cdk synth , the cli by default prints the whole CloudFormation template to the console.

To avoid that, pass in the --quiet flag.

Do it like so:

AWS CDK: Specify Runtime Version for CodeBuild Project

Welcome, weary traveler. Running into a CodeBuild CDK speedbump?

Assuming you have a CodeBuild project and you want to specify the runtime to be Node.js latest, here…