CDK split API Gateway stack into 2 small stacks

Question

I\'m trying to create a CDK stack in order to create API Gateway. Everything working as excepted if I create the stack in "small pieces" (comment part of the resources

Answer 1

This is how we are doing it right now. We basically have multiple stack that share the same API Gateway class (RestApi)

class MultipleStackConstruct extends Construct {
  constructor(scope: Construct, id: string) {
    super(scope, id);

    // Main stack with shared components
    const commonStack = new CommonStack(
      scope,
      `common-stack`
    );

    // Module 1
    const moduleOneStack = new ModulOneStack(
      scope,
      `module-one`,
      {
        apiGatewayRestApi: commonStack.apiGatewayRestApi
      }
    );

    // Module 2, 3, etc.....
  }
}

This interface is used to pass the props to module stack:

export interface CommonProps extends cdk.StackProps {
  apiGatewayRestApi: apigw.RestApi;
}

The common module will create the API Gateway object:

export class CommonStack extends cdk.Stack {
  public readonly apiGatewayRestApi: apigw.RestApi;

  constructor(scope: cdk.Construct, id: string, props?: CommonProps) {
    super(scope, id, props);

    /******** SETUP API ********/
    this.apiGatewayRestApi = new apigw.RestApi(this, "MyAPI", {
      // Options here
    });
}

So the module stack itself will be something like this:

export class ModuleOneStack extends cdk.Stack {
  constructor(scope: cdk.Construct, id: string, props?: CommonProps) {
    super(scope, id, props);

    if (props && props.apiGatewayRestApi) {
      const apiGatewayRestApi = props.apiGatewayRestApi;

      // associate lambda with api gateway
    }
  }
}

In this case, we are using only one API Gateway with multiple Lambdas that are divided into multiple stack, because we've also encountered the limit problem.

There is a documentation from AWS that is doing the same thing using VPC: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/api/latest/docs/aws-ec2-readme.html#sharing-vpcs-between-stacks

Copy paste from my comment here: https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/issues/1477#issuecomment-568652807