AWS CDK Application

This is a blank project for an AWS CDK application that is using aws-cdk-maven-plugin. If you're new to AWS CDK, please refer to the official developer guide. Though the documentation uses cdk CLI, you should be able to use all the examples with the only difference that you use aws-cdk-maven-plugin instead of running the CLI commands like cdk synth or cdk deploy etc.

Project Structure

• src/main/java/com/myorg/ExampleApp is entry-point of the CDK application. It's an instance of App construct and used as a root for the construct tree. In this example, it declares a single stack named ExampleStack.
• src/main/java/com/myorg/ExampleStack is a stack defining cloud resources.
• cdk.context is the JSON file defining the runtime context of the application.

Usage

In order to synthesize a CloudFormation template for the stack defined in the scope of the application, run mvn package. This will trigger synth goal of the plugin tied to the package phase.

mvn package

If the execution has completed successfully, you should be able to find a cdk.out directory in the target with a template for the ExampleStack in ExampleStack.template.json. As there're no resources defined in the stack, the template is empty ({}).

To deploy the application to an AWS, run mvn deploy.

mvn deploy

This will execute bootstrap and deploy goals (both associated with deploy phase). Since the stack is empty, the deployment will be skipped (you should see a corresponding message in the Maven output).