@aws-cdk/cx-api

What is @aws-cdk/cx-api?

@aws-cdk/cx-api is a part of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) that provides a set of APIs for interacting with the Cloud Assembly, which is the output of the CDK synthesis process. It allows developers to programmatically access and manipulate the synthesized cloud infrastructure stacks, assets, and metadata.

What are @aws-cdk/cx-api's main functionalities?

Accessing Cloud Assembly

This feature allows you to load and interact with a Cloud Assembly, which is the output directory of a CDK app synthesis. The code sample demonstrates how to load a Cloud Assembly from a specified path and log the stacks it contains.

const cxapi = require('@aws-cdk/cx-api');
const assembly = new cxapi.CloudAssembly('/path/to/cloud-assembly');
console.log(assembly.stacks);

Reading Stack Metadata

This feature allows you to read metadata from a specific stack within the Cloud Assembly. The code sample shows how to get a stack by its name and log its metadata.

const cxapi = require('@aws-cdk/cx-api');
const assembly = new cxapi.CloudAssembly('/path/to/cloud-assembly');
const stack = assembly.getStackByName('MyStack');
console.log(stack.metadata);

Listing Assets

This feature allows you to list all the assets included in the Cloud Assembly. The code sample demonstrates how to log all the assets in the Cloud Assembly.

const cxapi = require('@aws-cdk/cx-api');
const assembly = new cxapi.CloudAssembly('/path/to/cloud-assembly');
console.log(assembly.assets);

Other packages similar to @aws-cdk/cx-api

aws-sdk

The AWS SDK for JavaScript provides a comprehensive set of APIs for interacting with AWS services. While it does not specifically focus on the Cloud Assembly or CDK synthesis output, it allows for a wide range of AWS service interactions, including managing infrastructure, which can complement the use of @aws-cdk/cx-api.

serverless

The Serverless Framework is a popular open-source framework for building and deploying serverless applications. It provides functionalities for defining and deploying cloud infrastructure, similar to the CDK, but focuses on serverless architectures. It does not provide direct access to a Cloud Assembly like @aws-cdk/cx-api.

terraform

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README

Cloud Executable API

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The APIs of higher level constructs in this module are experimental and under active development. They are subject to non-backward compatible changes or removal in any future version. These are not subject to the Semantic Versioning model and breaking changes will be announced in the release notes. This means that while you may use them, you may need to update your source code when upgrading to a newer version of this package.

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This module is part of the AWS Cloud Development Kit project.

Changelog

1.38.0 (2020-05-08)

Features

• cloudfront: support geo restrictions for cloudfront distribution (#7345) (cf25ba0), closes #3456
• cloudwatch: legend positions in GraphWidgets (ada0de1), closes #3625
• codebuild: add support for test reports (4befefc), closes #7367
• core: custom resource provider helper (4a76973)
• ec2: EBS volume configuration for BastionHostLinux (207a8ec), closes #6945
• ecs: support multiple security groups when creating an ecs service (#7850) (456c469)
• iam: openid connect providers (20621ac), closes #5388 #3949 #6308
• add an example construct package (#7748) (2223584)
• lambda-nodejs: run parcel in a docker container (d86e500), closes #7169
• cloudformation spec v14.1.0 (#7822) (e133027)
• s3: new s3UrlForObject method on IBucket (#7508) (8fe4015), closes #7507
• stepfunctions: custom state as an escape hatch (c498f60)

Bug Fixes

• assets: invalid fingerprint when 'exclude' captures root directory name (#7719) (a5c06a3), closes #7718
• aws-batch: gpuCount was ignored in JobDefinition creation (#7587) (0f1bf23)
• cli: parameter value reuse is not configurable (44310c9), closes #7041
• core: docs refer to "createNamingScheme" which was renamed to "allocateLogicalId" (#7840) (d79595d), closes #7527
• ecs: update minHealthyPercent constrain for ec2service using daemon strategy (#7814) (19e3fd8)
• ecs: using secret JSON field with fargate task does not fail (#7317) (cb03a60), closes #7272
• eks: "vendor response doesn't contain attribute" when updating version (#7830) (8cabae0), closes #7526 #7794
• s3: grantDelete with KMS SSE (#7528) (c6d1a21), closes #4380
• secretsmanager: add kms policy to allow secret to use kms key (5460717)