Just watched the CDK Day session for Filling the gaps, building and publishing custom construct libraries. Anyone here played with projen or tried to write a Level 2/3 construct for public consumption? I know in SST we've got things like the RDS construct but not sure what processes were investigated to get where the code currently is. Been thinking about building a MongoDB Atlas Construct to declare projects/databases in SST, haven't really been too sure on where to start but I did see that there are some L1 constructs for dealing with Atlas, so I'm interesting in hearing about people's experiences.

for provisioning things outside of AWS this usually is just an sst.Script + a custom function. Wish it was more elegant then this

Script just overlays the CustomResource stuff right? Which is cool, they used a CustomResource in their example.

yeah

How elegant a solution would you be looking at in a perfect world?

something about filling my AWS account with random lambdas for these things bothers me

I guess that's no trivial task, did a cursory look through AWS docs and couldn't see they offer anything like that.

@Brinsley I think what you'd be interested in is https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudformation-cli/latest/userguide/resource-types.html if you'd like to vendor full CF types, or https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/api/v2/docs/aws-cdk-lib.custom_resources.Provider.html + https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/api/v2/docs/aws-cdk-lib.aws_lambda.SingletonFunction.html which is just CDK and how the CDK natively implements some custom functionality like log retention

Thanks for the input guys