Config Mgmt with CDK & Landing Zones | August meetup @ Nordcloud

Welcome to the August meetup!

Update - Nordcloud is sponsoring Pizza on the day of the event. In case you have food preferences, please let us know. You can comment on the meetup page below or send Anurag a meesage on LinkedIn (linked below)

This months meetup will focus on Configuration Management using CDK and Landing Zone. We will also hear a little bit about Nordcloud and what they do.

Topic 1 - Managing configuration(s) with AWS CDK:
Creating a simple hello world CDK application with couple of stacks is relatively easy. But for real world applications with multiple stacks deployed to multiple AWS accounts, configuration management can sometimes be tricky – especially if you're just starting with CDK. How and where you store global configuration? What about AWS account-specific configuration? Or environment-specific configuration? Or how you do "branch" your infrastructure code with different resource configurations for let's say production and ephemeral feature environments? What about cross-stack, cross-region or cross-application dependencies? These are all questions that developers using CDK need to think about. Of course, there's no "one size fits all" solution, but this talk discusses some of them and their pros & cons based on experiences of running CDK in production since late 2018 in an enterprise environment.

Speaker - Ari Palo, Alma Media Finland
LI - Ari's LinkedIn Profile

Topic 2 - Automating Account Creation and Empowering AWS Governance with Best Practices

The presentation demonstrates how to automate landing zone deployment with AWS Control Tower, utilizing built-in best practices to strengthen your cloud security and applying automated remediation actions.

Speaker - Ahmad Alahmad, Nordcloud
LI - Ahmad's LinkedIn Profile

Schedule

• 17:00 Start arriving at Nordcloud office & mingle
• 17:20 Intro about Nordcloud
• 17:30 Managing configuration(s) with AWS CDK
• 18:10 Break & Mingle
• 18:30 Automating Account Creation and Empowering AWS Governance with Best Practices
• 19:15 Closing notes, Raffle and networking
• 20:00 The end

Your Hosts:
Nordcloud - Johan Willins gata 6, 416 64 Göteborg

Your Organizers:

1. Marcus Karlsson : Consultant Unit Leader & Cloud Consultant at Knowit Connectivity Gothenburg.
   LinkedIn : Marcus Karlsson
2. Anurag Kale : Cloud Software Architect at Polestar & AWS Data Hero.
   LinkedIn : Anurag Kale

Do you have an idea or story around AWS you would like to share? Get in touch with the organizers and we'll discuss to make it happen.