Exposing multiple ports from Docker within Elastic Beanstalk

Question

From reading the AWS documentation, it appears that when using Docker as the platform on Elastic Beanstalk (EB) (as opposed to Tomcat, etc.), only a single port can be expos

Answer 1

In its current form, the Docker support in Elastic Beanstalk is marginal at best. FWIW I wrote a blog post evaluating EB that touched on this. I found that in addition to your observation about ports, it's not possible to run multiple containers, nor to even customize the docker run command. Hopefully they'll extend support in a future update.