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CDK for Terraform
Define Terraform infrastructure using programming languages
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Scalability
very high
Performance
high
Learning Curve
moderate
Maturity
stable
Languages: TypeScript, Python, Java, C#, Go
Architecture: imperative, terraform
When to Use
- +Love Terraform providers
- +Want real languages
- +Type safety
When Not to Use
- -Simple HCL sufficient
- -Need largest community
Strengths
- Real languages
- Terraform ecosystem
- Type safety
- Testing
Weaknesses
- Extra layer
- Smaller community
Operations
Maintenance
medium
Monitoring
medium
Backup/Recovery
moderate
Hosting: self-hosted
Quick Facts
- Category
- Infrastructure as Code
- License
- open source
- Pricing
- free (free tier)
- Community
- small
- Docs Quality
- excellent
- Trend
- growing
- Vendor Lock-in
- low
- Data Portability
- easy
Compliance
GDPR
HIPAA
SOC 2
PCI-DSS
Encryption
Audit Logs
RBAC
MFA
Best For
smallmediumlarge
Use Cases
- Terraform with code
- Type-safe IaC
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