CDK and IaC Landscape

This section deploys a small BookNest stack written with the AWS 24 Cloud Development Kit, then sets CloudFormation 24 beside Terraform 4,548 , OpenTofu 78,487 , Pulumi 55,992 , Crossplane 295,677 and Ansible 12,177 . The examples live in a public repository, github.com/binarybehemoth/booknest-infra (https://github.com/binarybehemoth/booknest-infra).

Subsections

• CDK Synthesis
• CDK App vs Template
• Terraform and OpenTofu
• Pulumi and Crossplane
• Ansible
• Choosing an IaC Tool