Start by sourcing the virtual env

source .venv/bin/activate

Once the virtualenv is activated, you can update the required dependencies.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Export the CDK_DEFAULT_ACCOUNT and CDK_DEFAULT_REGION variables to your shell environment, unless you'd prefer to hard code them into the Python code.

export CDK_DEFAULT_ACCOUNT=ACCOUNT
export CDK_DEFAULT_REGION=REGION

At this point you can now synthesize the CloudFormation template for this code.

cdk synth --context jarpath=PATH_TO_JAR \
    --context tls_cert_arn=ACM_CERTIFICATE_ARN \
    --context appname=APPNAME

If this is the first time you've deployed CDK assets to this account, the toolkit stack must be deployed to the environment.

cdk bootstrap --context jarpath=PATH_TO_JAR \
    --context tls_cert_arn=ACM_CERTIFICATE_ARN \
    --context appname=APPNAME

Finally, you are ready to deploy.

cdk deploy --context jarpath=PATH_TO_JAR \
    --context tls_cert_arn=ACM_CERTIFICATE_ARN \
    --context appname=APPNAME

• cdk ls list all stacks in the app
• cdk synth emits the synthesized CloudFormation template
• cdk deploy deploy this stack to your default AWS account/region
• cdk diff compare deployed stack with current state
• cdk docs open CDK documentation

Enjoy!