Alternative Infrastructure Providers

[alimeerutech]

add support for running Terraform or SDK/API calls via boto3 as an alternative infrastructure to provider to Cloudformation

Use Case

This would free CDK from all the issues/limitations that come with Cloudformation, also would open the door for cdk to deploy to other cloud providers/environments based on their own specific SDK/APIs.

Proposed Solution

in cdk.json

apps: [
  {
    "name": "app1",
    "provider": "terraform"
  },
  {
    "name": "app2",
    "provider": "boto3"
  }
]

Other

• [ ] :wave: I may be able to implement this feature request
• [X] :warning: This feature might incur a breaking change

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This is a :rocket: Feature Request

[eladb]

I am transferring this to the RFC repo for further discussion.

[jamesholmes-linktree]

Oh god please no. Just use Pulumi if you want this kind of functionality. CDK does one thing and one thing well: apply opinionated patterns to create CloudFormation templates in a safe way.

[mrgrain]

This would be a strategy decision, not just a technical one. Therefore out of scope for this repo.