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		Bellyache5 on July 9, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I made a mistake with Terraform and Azure made it ... What's the use-case for creating resources outside of--but also defining them in--CDK in this case? That's generally an anti-pattern.

andrew_ on July 9, 2021 [–]

It's actually not an anti-pattern. CDK provides many methods (e.g. `StringParameter.valueForStringParameter`) for accessing deployed resources from other stacks, or those deployed by other tools or manually. IaC can get in the way or that, but it's not forbidden, nor discouraged.

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