Provision an Ubuntu-based EC2 instance with CDK
You are using CDK and you need to provision an EC2 instance. What if you prefer to use Ubuntu over Amazon Linux? In this article, we will see exactly how to do that, and, hopefully, we will learn a bunch of interesting things in the process! I have to be honest, I am more on the Ubuntu camp than I am in the Amazon Linux one… It’s a subjective preference. I find myself more comfortable with apt, snap, systemd and other Ubuntu nuances than I am with yum and other things in Amazon Linux. Plus, I find easier to…