Pushing to an existing AWS Elastic Beanstalk application from the command line

Question

I\'ve used the web dashboard of Elastic Beanstalk to make an application and an environment. I know I can update that using the dashboard and uploading a zip file of my appl

Answer 1

Here are the steps to use "git aws.push" with your existing ElasticBeanstalk(EB) application. (These steps would be useful, specifically, for your question and also if you had setup EB using command line from another machine and are now setting up the tools on a new machine.)

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Before you start

You should have git installed on your system and your code should have a git repository.

Download the latest "AWS Elastic Beanstalk Command Line Tool" and get it working. Find a link to download here: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/command-reference-branch-environment.html

The git aws.push command won't work yet cause your .ebextensions isn't configured. (Basically the .ebextensions stores your AWS Keys and info on EB instance to deploy to etc.)

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Steps

Run the eb --init command. (I do this from the root of my application code directory, and it automatically picks the name of the application. Maybe you can run the command from any other location as well and specify the name manually later.)

AWS-ElasticBeanstalk-CLI-2.6.0/eb/linux/python2.7/eb (on Linux) or

AWS-ElasticBeanstalk-CLI-2.6.0/eb/windows/eb.exe (on Windows)

Enter you AWS Access Key ID and Secret Access Key

Select the environment you configured your application with (The choices are AMI Linux 64bit, Ubuntu 32bit etc.). Basically select the options that you selected while creating your first EB instance.

For Create RDS instance? [y/n]: Say n (You already have a DB instance or don't need one).

Choose "Create a default instance profile".

This would be the last step under eb --init and the script will exit.

You can find more information on the above steps here: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/create_deploy_Python.html

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Environment ready to use

The above steps will result in an .ebextensions directory (in ~/ I guess.)

From now on just git commit the changes in your code and run git aws.push and the application will be deployed to AWS. It's quite cool once you have it all configured.

Hope this helps. I jotted this down quickly. Let me know if you find the steps confusing, and I'll try to write it better.