Everything You Need to Know About *CDK - The Internals: From CDKTF to CDK8s

A few years into the infrastructure-as-code revolution, a growing number of teams have started to feel the friction of writing complex logic in YAML and HCL. CDKs offer a way out: write your infrastructure in a real programming language and still get the benefits of Terraform or Kubernetes under the hood. In this talk, I cover the internals that make this possible. I walk through both CDKTF (for Terraform) and CDK8s (for Kubernetes), explain the universal constructs model that underpins them, and show real-world examples of what a migration looks like. I also discuss when adopting a CDK is the right choice for your engineering organization and when it might not be.