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Deploying to AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Owned by Steffen Opel [Utoolity]
Last updated: 23.01.2015Version comment
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Components

The deployment of an artifact to AWS Elastic Beanstalk involves several major components as follows:

  • Application – a logical collection of Elastic Beanstalk components, including environments, versions [...] (see the next two)
  • Application Version – a specific, labeled iteration of deployable code for a web application
  • Environment – a version that is deployed onto AWS resources

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Workflow

The deployment workflow is illustrated by the diagram in What Is AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Why Do I Need It?:

The binding between those components is established indirectly and comprises the following activities:

  1. create an application – see the Create action of the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Application task
  2. upload the application source code (the 'Source Bundle') – see the Upload action of the Amazon S3 Object task
  3. create an application version for that application – see the Create action of the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Application Version task
  4. launch an environment with one of the available application versions of an application – see the Create action of the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Environment task
  5. manage the environment, which implies going back to 3./4. and selecting one of two approaches for deploying a new application version (be it a newly created or a former one):
    1. update an environment as outlined in Deploying Versions to Existing Environments by replacing the currently running application version with another one – see the Update action of the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Environment task
    2. create a new environment, optionally swapping over to that one by Deploying Versions with Zero Downtime once it is verified as working correctly – see the Swap action of the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Environment task

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