how to restart node application automatically on aws elastic-beanstalk

Question

I have googled this question for a while but can\'t find the answer. My question is while deploying the nodejs application on aws elastic-beanstalk servers, I want the nodejs ap

Answer 1

After playing around with this a bit, and inspecting the process immediately after running

aws elasticbeanstalk restart-app-server --environment-name my-env

from @Human Love 's comment. I found these two commands for manually starting/stopping the process when ssh'd into the EC2. Not sure if these are recommended, but for quick debugging I find them useful

# to start the process
python /opt/elasticbeanstalk/containerfiles/ebnode.py --action start-all
# to stop the process
sudo python /opt/elasticbeanstalk/containerfiles/ebnode.py --action stop-all

[NOTE]: this is a nodejs specific solution. Though other application types are probably pretty similar. To inspect the exact command. Open two terminal windows and

1. in the first, run aws elasticbeanstalk restart-app-server --environment-name my-env
2. in the second, run ps aux | grep python (I grepped for node because it was a node app)

to find the specific /opt/elasticbeanstalk script