AWS CDK Windows AD Deployment

Some AWS CDK to spit out Cloudformation for building EC2 instances of Windows Active Directory

Setup

1. make sure you have the latest version of the CDK CLI installed.

2. make sure your AWK CLI credentials && profile are setup.

   nano ~/.aws/credentials
       [default]
       aws_access_key_id = ############
       aws_secret_access_key = ############
   

   nano ~/.aws/config
       [default]
       region = <your region>
       output = json
   

3. install dependancies with npm

   npm install

4. create an ssh key pair in AWS via the Management Console and save them to your AWS cli directory.

   ~/.aws/pems/<yourpemfile>

   4.1. then give them the proper permissions bash chmod 400 ~/.aws/pems/<yourpemfile>

Useage

1. Synthesize your CloudFormation Template a. default Synthesize as a log output

   cdk synth --profile <yourprofile>

   b. Synthesize your template to a .yaml file

   cdk synth --profile <yourprofile> >> <yourfile.yaml>

2. Deploy your CloudFormation Stack

   cdk deploy --profile <yourprofile>

3. Destroy your CloudFormation Stack

   cdk destroy --profile <yourprofile>