Elastic Beanstalk with AWS-CDK on higher level than resources - aws-cdk

Question

I have a Elastic Beanstalk application that is deployed with a CloudFormation json config.
I'm looking into the Cloud Development Kit atm and try to replicate the CloudFormation config I have right now from an CDK app.
But I can't find any Info according to create an Elastic Beanstalk app in CDK on higher level. If I got it right, the aim is, to write less config code and still get the same cloudformation executed.
I started experimenting using the CfnApplication from the elastic beanstalk package, but according to what I read, using any Cfn* things means I'm on the low-level end again where it's the same effort creating the configs. But I'm unable to find anything higher-level for ElasticBeanstalk :/
Therefore the question: is it even implemented yet, or did I not find what I search for?
Regards,
Luke

Answer 1

I was able to get a working sample environment using this:
https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-cdk-examples/tree/master/typescript/elasticbeanstalk/elasticbeanstalk-environment
It does what they say it should, in that it chooses sensible defaults, but this is just a jumping off point, as it is just a sample application. For customization, you set the attributes that are important to you, and the rest is autogenerated.
One thing to note, though - this example threw an error for me until I added the solutionStackName parameter. The example has this:
new elasticbeanstalk.CfnEnvironment(this, 'Environment', {
environmentName: 'MySampleEnvironment',
applicationName: app.applicationName,
platformArn: platform
});
and this is the working block:
new elasticbeanstalk.CfnEnvironment(this, 'Environment', {
environmentName: 'MySampleEnvironment',
applicationName: app.applicationName,
platformArn: platform,
solutionStackName: '64bit Amazon Linux 2018.03 v2.12.10 running Docker 18.06.1-ce'
});
The solution stack value just needs to be the valid solution stack name for the platform you are running.
Hope that helps!