Does anyone have a favourite guide on importing existing AWS resources into their CDK/SST cloudformation stacks? I’m trying to recreate VPCS, Route53, and foundational stuff without having to destroy & recreate everything

Hey @Drew, you can import a VPC like this:

ec2.Vpc.fromLookup(this, "ImportedVPC", {
  vpcId
});

More details here

👍 that makes sense for our core foundation

If you want multiple developers (multiple stages) to share the same VPC, you can do somehting like this:

if (stage === "dev-main") {
  this.vpc = new ec2.Vpc(...)
}
else if (stage.startsWith ("dev-")) {
  this.vpc = ec2.Vpc.lookup(...)
}

So you create the VPC only in

dev-main

stage, and

dev-drew

,

dev-frank

stages imports its VPC.

🤔 this may work….

@Frank can you guys document a guide or something like that for best practices? I think we all have the same question around strategies.

Yeah we need to do make this more of a priority for sure!

@Adrián Mouly 🙌 Agreed!