Using the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Environment task in Bamboo

You can use the Elastic Beanstalk Environment task to create, update, rebuild, restart, swap or terminate an AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment (see Deploying to AWS Elastic Beanstalk for an overview of the Elastic Beanstalk component lifecycle and deployment workflow).

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Related Pages:

Deploying to AWS Elastic Beanstalk
- Using the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Application Version task in Bamboo
- Using the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Application task in Bamboo
Using the Amazon S3 Object task in Bamboo

Configuration

To ease common scenarios, the Create action allows to Update [the] environment, if it already exists.

Docker Support

You can also deploy AWS Elastic Beanstalk applications from Docker containers - select an appropriate solution stack from Configuration Source as follows:

Docker - this supports a workflow based on your own Docker containers, refer to Dockerfile and Dockerrun.aws.json for details.
<platform> (Preconfigured Docker) - this supports a workflow based on Docker containers preconfigured from base images provided in the Docker Hub Registry at Repositories, refer to Deploying AWS Elastic Beanstalk Applications from Preconfigured Docker Containers for details.

Deployment Cycle

The required Version Label stems from an Application Version previously provisioned - assuming an Application already exists, the typical deployment cycle is as follows:

upload a source bundle via the S3 Object task's Upload action
create a version via the Elastic Beanstalk Application Version task's Create action
deploy that version via the Elastic Beanstalk Environment task's Update action

To configure an AWS Elastic Beanstalk Environment task:

Navigate to the Tasks configuration tab for the job (this will be the default job if creating a new plan).
Click the name of an existing AWS Elastic Beanstalk Environment task, or click Add Task and then AWS Elastic Beanstalk Environment to create a new task.

Complete the following settings:

Common to all tasks

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Task Description	(Optional) Identify the purpose of the task.
Disable this task	Check, or clear, to selectively run this task.
Action	Each task supports one or more actions depending on the target AWS resource. Select the desired action and configure the action specific parameters below.
Region	Select the desired AWS Region. Alternatively, select [Use region variable ...] to supply the region dynamically via Bamboo variables (needs to be a region code such as `ap-southeast-2`) - refer to How to parametrize the AWS region via a Bamboo variable for details.
...	Configure task/action specific parameters, see below ...
AWS Security Credentials
Source	Select the source for the required AWS Security Credentials - can be either Inline, an IAM Role for EC2 or a shared Identity Federation for AWS Connector.
Connector	(Conditional) Select the shared Identity Federation for AWS Connector. Alternatively, select [Use connector variable ...] to supply the connector dynamically via Bamboo variables (needs to be a connector id such as `f24e81bc-7aff-42db-86a2-7cf82e24d871`) - refer to How to parametrize the AWS connector via a Bamboo variable for details.

Actions supported by this task:

Create Environment
Update environment, if it already exists	Check to apply the Update action, if the environment already exists. Clear to trigger a build failure otherwise. In case of an Update action, only applicable fields are used, i.e. the following fields are ignored: Environment Tier CNAME Prefix Configuration Source Solution Stack Tags
Application Name	Specify the name of the application that contains the version to be deployed
Environment Name	Specify an environment name. Must be unique within your account. If the name already exists, the task will fail.
Environment Tier	Select a Web Server or Worker environment tier. Refer to the Architectural Overview for the differences between these environment tier types.
Version Label	(Optional) Specify the label of the application version to deploy. If not specified, AWS Elastic Beanstalk attempts to launch the sample application in the container.
CNAME Prefix	(Optional) Specify the prefix for the CNAME that the environment should attempt to use. Must be unique across all Elastic Beanstalk environments. If the name already exists, the task will fail. If not specified, the CNAME is generated automatically by appending a random alphanumeric string to the environment name.
Configuration Source	Select a predefined solution stack or saved named template. There might be more recent solution stacks available, see Supported Platforms – you can enter an updated version manually.
*Advanced Options*
Await Health Status Timeout	Specify how long to await the environment's health status reaching a non grey state (seconds, default is 600, use 0 to skip).
Verify Green Health Status Period	Specify how long to verify the environment's health status being green (seconds, default is 180, use 0 to skip).
Configuration Option Settings	(Optional) Configure the environment's option settings. Refer to Option Values for available configuration option settings.
Tags	(Optional) Tag the environment. Refer to Tagging Your Amazon EC2 Resources and Listing and Filtering Your Resources for details. For example: Single Instance – Uses single-instance environment type instead of load-balanced. Instance type – Sets the configurations instance type to the desired size/type. Auto Scaling range – Sets the Auto Scaling group instance number min and max sizes. Worker Tier IAM Profile – Defines the IAM instance profile to use for a worker tier configuration. General Purpose (SSD) storage volume – Defines the root storage volume for the Amazon EC2 instances in the environment as general purpose SSD.
Description	(Optional) Describe the environment.
Update Environment	Unmodified option handling Any option that is not populated in the task will not be updated in the environment (i.e. nothing is sent to Beanstalk for this option, which retains its current value accordingly).
Environment Name or ID or CNAME	Specify the target environment. You can use its name, ID or the associated CNAME. CNAME needs to be the fully qualified domain name, e.g. "someEnv.elasticbeanstalk.com"
Version Label	see Create above
Configuration Source	(Optional) Select a predefined solution stack or saved named template. This enables Upgrading the Elastic Beanstalk Environment's Platform Version. There might be more recent solution stacks available, see Supported Platforms – you can enter an updated version manually.
*Advanced Options*
Await Health Status Timeout	see Create above
Verify Green Health Status Period	see Create above
Configuration Option Settings	see Create above
Tags	see Create above
Description	see Create above
Rebuild Environment
Environment Name or ID or CNAME	see Update above
*Advanced Options*
Await Health Status Timeout	see Create above
Verify Green Health Status Period	see Create above
Restart Environment
Environment Name or ID or CNAME	see Update above
*Advanced Options*
Await Health Status Timeout	see Create above
Verify Green Health Status Period	see Create above
Swap Environment CNAMEs	The Swap action enables Deploying Versions with Zero Downtime by swapping the URLs between two environments - this concept is also referred to as a Blue-Green deployments. AWS recommends rolling updates If your application architecture and deployment scenario allow to use rolling updates, AWS nowadays recommends this approach over a CNAME swap. In case, you can specify the desired deployment method via the Configuration Option Settings in section Advanced Options of the Create and Update actions. Refer to Deploying Applications to AWS Elastic Beanstalk Environments for a comparison of available deployment methods, to Deployment Policies and Settings for more details on rolling updates, and to The aws:elasticbeanstalk:command namespace for the available configuration options.
Source Environment Name or ID or CNAME	Specify the source environment. You can use its name, ID or the associated CNAME. CNAME needs to be the fully qualified domain name, e.g. "someBlueEnv.elasticbeanstalk.com"
Destination Environment Name or ID or CNAME	Specify the target environment. You can use its name, ID or the associated CNAME. CNAME needs to be the fully qualified domain name, e.g. "someGreenEnv.elasticbeanstalk.com"
Terminate Environment
Environment Name or ID or CNAME	see Update above
Don't fail for non existing environment	Check to not fail the build, if the environment does not exist (anymore). Clear to trigger a build failure otherwise.
Terminate Resources	Check to also terminate the associated AWS resources. Clear to remove the associated AWS resources from Elastic Beanstalk, but continue to operate them.

Variables

All tasks support Bamboo Variable Substitution/Definition - this task's actions generate variables as follows:

A task's generated variables might get amended with respective AWS API additions over time - a live build log will always provide the most current variable shape accordingly

Create Environment

Creating common variables for 1 resources affected by task:
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.resources: e-nfmuvhyf3j
Creating resource variables for environment 'TE-TAWS-IT220-EBE-24' with environmentId 'e-nfmuvhyf3j':
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.resources.e-nfmuvhyf3j.ApplicationName: TEA-TAWS-IT220-EBE-24
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.resources.e-nfmuvhyf3j.CNAME: TAWS-IT220-EBE-24.elasticbeanstalk.com
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.resources.e-nfmuvhyf3j.DateCreated: 20150721T230321Z
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.resources.e-nfmuvhyf3j.DateUpdated: 20150721T231004Z
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.resources.e-nfmuvhyf3j.Description: Initial environment description.
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.resources.e-nfmuvhyf3j.EndpointURL: 54.243.135.159
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.resources.e-nfmuvhyf3j.EnvironmentId: e-nfmuvhyf3j
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.resources.e-nfmuvhyf3j.EnvironmentName: TE-TAWS-IT220-EBE-24
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.resources.e-nfmuvhyf3j.Health: Green
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.resources.e-nfmuvhyf3j.SolutionStackName: 64bit Amazon Linux 2015.03 v1.4.0 running Docker 1.6.0
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.resources.e-nfmuvhyf3j.Status: Ready
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.resources.e-nfmuvhyf3j.TemplateName: null
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.resources.e-nfmuvhyf3j.VersionLabel: null
Creating common variables for first resource affected by task:
Creating resource variables for environment 'TE-TAWS-IT220-EBE-24' with environmentId 'e-nfmuvhyf3j':
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.first.ApplicationName: TEA-TAWS-IT220-EBE-24
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.first.CNAME: TAWS-IT220-EBE-24.elasticbeanstalk.com
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.first.DateCreated: 20150721T230321Z
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.first.DateUpdated: 20150721T231004Z
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.first.Description: Initial environment description.
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.first.EndpointURL: 54.243.135.159
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.first.EnvironmentId: e-nfmuvhyf3j
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.first.EnvironmentName: TE-TAWS-IT220-EBE-24
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.first.Health: Green
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.first.SolutionStackName: 64bit Amazon Linux 2015.03 v1.4.0 running Docker 1.6.0
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.first.Status: Ready
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.first.TemplateName: null
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.first.VersionLabel: null

Update Environment

See Create above.

Rebuild Environment

See Create above.

Restart Environment

See Create above.

Swap Environment CNAMEs

Creating common variables for source and destination resources affected by task:
Creating resource variables for environment 'TE-TAWS-IT220-EBE-24' with environmentId 'e-nfmuvhyf3j':
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.source.ApplicationName: TEA-TAWS-IT220-EBE-24
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.source.CNAME: TAWS-IT220-EBE-24.elasticbeanstalk.com
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.source.DateCreated: 20150721T230321Z
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.source.DateUpdated: 20150721T231004Z
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.source.Description: Initial environment description.
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.source.EndpointURL: 54.243.135.159
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.source.EnvironmentId: e-nfmuvhyf3j
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.source.EnvironmentName: TE-TAWS-IT220-EBE-24
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.source.Health: Green
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.source.SolutionStackName: 64bit Amazon Linux 2015.03 v1.4.0 running Docker 1.6.0
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.source.Status: Ready
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.source.TemplateName: null
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.source.VersionLabel: null
Creating resource variables for environment 'TE-TAWS-IT220-EBE-25' with environmentId 'e-nfmuvhyf3k':
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.destination.ApplicationName: TEA-TAWS-IT220-EBE-25
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.destination.CNAME: TAWS-IT220-EBE-25.elasticbeanstalk.com
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.destination.DateCreated: 20150721T231442Z
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.destination.DateUpdated: 20150721T232108Z
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.destination.Description: Initial environment description.
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.destination.EndpointURL: 54.243.135.160
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.destination.EnvironmentId: e-nfmuvhyf3k
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.destination.EnvironmentName: TE-TAWS-IT220-EBE-25
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.destination.Health: Green
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.destination.SolutionStackName: 64bit Amazon Linux 2015.03 v1.4.0 running Docker 1.6.0
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.destination.Status: Ready
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.destination.TemplateName: null
... bamboo.custom.aws.elasticbeanstalk.environment.destination.VersionLabel: null

Terminate Environment

See Create above.

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