How to make a Docker build image for the Python flavor of AWS CDK, for people who don't like NPM

This is going to rub a lot of people the wrong way, but here was my initial thought process when I first encountered AWS CDK:

Oh wow, it's got a Python flavor! I can actually write all of my AWS infrastructure as code in Python and ditch Terraform? It transpiles to Cloudformation so I can use Cloudformation drift detection and I don't have to worry about state files? This is incredible!

😬 It's actually all written in typescript? I have …

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