Background: We have an VPC, it has an Internet Gateway attached.
I would like to get the InternetGatewayId of the VPC via aws-cdk
vpc := awsec2.Vpc_FromLookup(stack, jsii.String(viper.GetString(`vpc.id`)), &awsec2.VpcLookupOptions{
VpcId: jsii.String(viper.GetString(`vpc.id`)),
}) //Here it returns awsec2.Ivpc
But according to the code, only awsec2.Vpc has a method InternetGatewayId(). How could I convert awsec2.Ivpc to awsec2.Vpc?
The Ivpc type returned from Vpc_FromLookup is a CDK convenience method to cache a limited set of VPC attributes at synth-time. Unfortunately, the Internet Gateway ID isn't one of them:
Currently you're unable to get the [Internet Gateway] ID for imported VPCs. To do that you'd have to specifically look up the Internet Gateway by name, which would require knowing the name beforehand.
A simple, deterministic workaround is to manually store the ID as a SSM Parameter Store Parameter. At synth-time, StringParameter_ValueFromLookup looks up and caches the IGW ID value as Context in cdk.context.json.:
igwID := awsssm.StringParameter_ValueFromLookup(stack, jsii.String("/my-params/vpc/igw-id"))
A more advanced CDK-only solution is to lookup the ID in a deploy-time CustomResource, which "can do arbitrary lookups or modifications during a CloudFormation deployment" (typically by making SDK calls using a Lambda). Note that this is not necessarily a better solution, because it introduces non-determinacy into the deployment.