what is elastic beanstalk (el)?

Elastic Beanstalk is a Platform as a service (PaaS)

• Developers provides code

• EB handles the deployment

  • capacity provisioning
  • load balancing
  • automatic scaling to web application health monitoring,
  • with ongoing fully managed patch and security updates
  • and many other things
    • networking (VPC, subnets)
    • EC2 instance: EBS, CloudWatch, Security Group
    • database
    • deployment strategy…

note

EB provides:

• Managed Platform for many languages:
  • Go, Java,
  • .NET, .NET Code,
  • Node, PHP, Python, Ruby
• Custom Platform via Docker

how to use eb?

When working with EB, you:

1. Create an EB application
2. Bundle a deployable code (aka source bundle) as an application version that will be automatically deployed either as One of two type of Environment tier:
   • Web Server environment
   • a Worker environment, that can be deployed with a message queue (SQS)
3. Manage the environments
4. Update new application version, and EB will deploy new versions of environments

elastic beanstalk is based on cloudformation>

Use can provide additional Cfn configuration via the .config files inside .ebextensions folder in the source bundle.

These config can:

• modify the EB application environment
• modify the EC2 instances
• deploy custom Cfn resources, make advance modification to Cfn resources
• …

See GitHub - awsdocs/elastic-beanstalk-samples