aws-code-deploy

I have a web application that utilizes environment variables for some of its configuration (DB credentials, API keys, etc). I'm currently using Elastic Beanstalk for deployment and can easily set these from within AWS, which is great because I don't have this sensitive data in my code base. However, I'm looking into switching from Elastic Beanstalk so I can leverage a bit more flexibility with my web instances, and naturally I'm looking into deploying (from my Codeship CI setup) using CodeDeploy. CodeDeploy is fairly straight forward and I've integrated it with Codeship just fine, but I

I want to autoscale the infrastructure when load gets high. I am running my infrastructure on AWS . I have a requirement where I need to pull the application code from Github when autoscaling happens. As the code changes frequently, we can't take an AMI and launch an instance from that AMI . So I want to pull the latest code from repositories . AWS just launched a service called AWS CodeDeploy . How can I use this service to automate the process of pulling the code when the instances start? P.S. I have written an init script to automatically attach an EIP , whitelist that IP on different

I am trying to set AWS Code deploy with Github to automate my deloyment. the problem i am having is the ec2 instance is already active and has the web app code. the problem is there is also other content on the instance that I don't want under source control. Code deploy is failing with the following error: The deployment failed because a specified file already exists at this location this is because the source code is on the instance and was not added as a revision. So my question is there any way to make the code deploy recognise the current files on the instance as an inital revision? This