Creating the network environment with Amazon VPC

4.1 Return to your CDK project folder.

cd ~/environment/cdk-msg-app-backend/

4.2. In lib/cdk-msg-app-backend-stack.ts, add the following below the last import.

import * as ec2 from 'aws-cdk-lib/aws-ec2';

4.3. In lib/cdk-msg-app-backend-stack.ts, add the following code inside the constructor.

    const vpc = new ec2.Vpc(this, "workshop-vpc", {
      cidr: "10.1.0.0/16",
      natGateways: 1,
      subnetConfiguration: [
        {  cidrMask: 24, subnetType: ec2.SubnetType.PUBLIC, name: "Public" },
        {  cidrMask: 24, subnetType: ec2.SubnetType.PRIVATE, name: "Private" }
        ],
      maxAzs: 3 // Default is all AZs in region
    });

4.4. Save it and make sure it builds and creates a stack.

cdk synth

4.5. Deploy the stack.

cdk deploy

4.6. Open the Amazon VPC console on Your VPCs https://console.aws.amazon.com/vpc/home?#vpcs:, you will see your new VPC with 2 public and 2 private subnets.