Some time ago I installed k3s on a couple of Raspberry Pi to learn more about Kubernetes. I ended up using this cluster as a home lab. I would use it to test some software I wrote, to try out tools or services that could be deployed on Kubernetes, and I used it to control my home network too. I deployed PiHole to this cluster and configured my router to use PiHole as the DNS server. It worked pretty well for a while until the Pi became noisy because their fans started to fail.

I recently started using AWS CDK in a project that I’m now contributing to at work. It is a new experience for me, this tool. I’ve turned a blind eye to it for some time as a result of bad experiences in the past. Not with AWS CDK itself, mind you, but with the concept.

The basic premise of AWS CDK is that you can use the power of a programming language to describe your infrastructure.