How to Build on AWS with CDK for Terraform (CDKTF)
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Summary: CDKTF puts a general-purpose language on top of the Terraform ecosystem, synthesizing to Terraform so providers, state and the plan model carry over unchanged. The sweet spot is programmatic generation: many similar resources, conditional structures, code shared with an application team. For simple estates HCL stays easier to read and review, so adopt CDKTF for a reason.
Who should read it: developer-heavy teams considering infrastructure in a real language, and Terraform users curious what CDKTF changes.