When Deploying CDK to AWS via Docker, bash: cdk: command not found - bash

Question

Present are two files, Dockerfile.infra and docker-compose-infra.yml. Firstly, docker-compose-infra.yml is built via the following command:
docker-compose --file docker-compose-infra.yml build
This results in no errors and finishes as expected.
The problem arises when trying to deploy this to AWS. The following command:
docker-compose --file docker-compose-infra.yml run cdk
Produces this error:
bash: cdk: command not found
This appears to be triggered when the docker-compose-infra.yml attempts to run the cdk deploy bash command.
The command should run because within the Dockerfile.infra build, cdk is installed via npm install -g aws-cdk-lib.
Dockerfile.infra file:
FROM node:16-slim
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
RUN npm install -g aws-cdk-lib \
&& apt-get update -y \
&& apt-get upgrade -y \
&& apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
# install Python
python3-pip \
# install Poetry via curl
curl \
&& curl -k https://install.python-poetry.org | python3 - \
&& apt-get remove curl -y \
&& apt-get autoremove -y \
&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
COPY pyproject.toml poetry.lock /
ENV PATH=/root/.local/bin:$PATH
RUN poetry config virtualenvs.create false \
&& poetry install --no-dev
WORKDIR /app/
COPY app.py cdk.json cdk.context.json /app/
COPY stacks/ /app/stacks/
docker-compose-infra.yml:
version: "3"
services:
cdk:
command: bash -c "cdk deploy --require-approval never --all --parameters my-app-${ENVIRONMENT}-service:MyServiceImageTag=${IMAGE_TAG}"
build:
context: ./
dockerfile: Dockerfile.infra
environment:
- AWS_PROFILE=${AWS_PROFILE}
- ENVIRONMENT=${ENVIRONMENT}
- DEPLOY_ACCOUNT=${DEPLOY_ACCOUNT}
volumes:
- ~/.aws/credentials:/root/.aws/credentials

Answer 1

You need to install aws-cdk not aws-cdk-lib
RUN npm install -g aws-cdk \
This might be a bit confusing because aws-cdk-lib is also the name of the required Python dependency when writing Python CDK apps and a valid npm package.