How to run eb deploy for different environments? - amazon-web-services

I have elasticbeanstalk setup with different environments. Whenever I run eb deploy within the eb cli, it will always run for the original environment I set it up on project-dev.
Now, I want to deploy to a new environment that I created called project-stage, but I do not know how to switch to that environment to run eb deploy.
I read through the AWS documentation with no luck. I also tried experimenting with adding things like eb deploy -project-dev, but that didn't work either.

eb deploy environment-name
In your case, try eb deploy project-stage
Reference: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/eb3-deploy.html

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How do I link a project source folder to an existing Elastic Beanstalk application?

I've been using the AWS console to upload a WAR file for deployment. Now I want to do it from the command line. I've been following this guide and see eb init and read the help with eb init --help and eb --help, but the only option is to create a new application.
usage: eb init <application_name> [options ...]
Initializes your directory with the EB CLI. Creates the application.
positional arguments:
application_name application name
How do I link my local source project directory to an existing application in AWS console?
I would expect a command like eb link or something, like how you can just add a Git remote with Heroku and automatically link an existing project to an existing app.
When you perform eb init in the directory containing your source code, eb will prompt you for an application name and an environment name. This way you can link your source code to what ever application/environment is deployed on Beanstalk.
It worked after I got the AWS CLI keys for the project and ran aws configure. I had old keys in ~/.aws/ from a different project from perhaps a decade ago that used a different format. Once I got new keys, that were given permission for these particular apps, and ran aws configure and set the region, then eb init would present a menu of applications to choose from. The command aws elasticbeanstalk describe-applications has to work first before eb can work. I was expecting it would ask for a username and password, like Heroku does.
Install aws and eb command line tools:
Install awscli
Get keys from AWS admin devops.
aws configure (Example Region: 'us-east-1')
aws elasticbeanstalk describe-applications
Install Python
pip install awsebcli --upgrade --user
Add eb to your PATH, probably %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python37\Scripts
eb init
eb list / eb logs / eb ssh / eb status / eb config / eb help
Beanstalk differs from Heroku in this workflow, unless you are using CodeCommit. I am assuming you are just using S3 to store your application versions.
The EBCLI command to do this is:
eb create-application-version
You can specify an application, a version label, as well as either a CodeCommit repository, a codeBuild build, or a source bundle in S3. API docs
You will need to run a separate command before create-application-version to upload to your S3 bucket.
Using the CLI:
aws s3 cp <filename> <s3bucket>
API docs
You can also use the console.
It seems like that guide skips initializing your local git repository. For linking your local source project to beanstalk, make sure you have initialized a local git repository. Then you can link your workspace and application using eb init. more about EB CLI and Git
Based on my understanding, your question is that you had a project directory on your PC and run your app at the localhost, now you want to run it in the AWS Elastic Beanstalk to make it public.
If you have created an EB application in the EB management console and uploaded your bundled source code, the source code becomes an application version, you need to deploy it into one of your environment using the EB management console, like this:
Figure of the management console.
Then the EB platform(container) will take care of that and run your server automatically as long as you set up the command which your app uses to run the server, the proxy, and other configurations either through the EB management console -> [Your environment] -> configuration or using the .ebextensions file.
If everything is well, you can visit your app's home page through the environment URL at that time.

aws-cli equivalent of eb deploy?

I'm attempting to deploy an app from one ElasticBeanstalk instance to another. Running pip install awsebcli --upgrade --user doesnt install the eb cli tool for some odd reason on the EC2 machine.
Does anyone know the equivalent of eb deploy using only the aws cli options?
This question is a bit confusing. Are you attempting to move code between EC2 instances in your Beanstalk environment?
If I'm assuming correctly, you've pulled/changed your code on one Beanstalk host. And now you're trying to propagate that change to the other instances using the EB CLI. That's not a best practice. Beanstalk has a mechanism to deploy your code to all instances.
The EB CLI is meant to be run from your workstation to push code from your IDE/editor to the Beanstalk hosts in AWS.
Beanstalk keeps a copy of that code revision in S3. And if the Beanstalk environment is load balanced then all instances will be running the same application version when scaling events or deployments occur because it will pull your code from a common source.
But to answer your question:
Does anyone know the equivalent of eb deploy using only the aws cli options?
You're gonna wanna ZIP and upload your code to S3 and note the S3 key and bucket values of where it's located.
Then create a new application version.
% aws elasticbeanstalk create-application-version --application-name="<APPLICATION_NAME>" --version-label="<NEW_VERSION_LABEL>" --source-bundle="{\"S3Bucket\": \"<S3_BUCKET_NAME>\",\"S3Key\": \"<S3_KEY>\"}"
Then deploy your new application version to the running environment.
% aws elasticbeanstalk update-environment --environment-id="<ENVIRONMENT_ID>" --version-label="<NEW_VERSION_LABEL>"
Reading is hard...
Linux requires you to "[a]dd the path to the executable file to your PATH variable"
export PATH=~/.local/bin:$PATH
eb --version now works

Using eb cli (v3) from a script

I would like to launch eb deploy from a deployment script (so non interactive mode) because it's a hell of a lot easier than using aws cli
The issue is: there seems to be no way to choose a default environment during eb init (as it used to be in older version with the -e option). So if an existing application has several environment, eb cli will prompt you to choose an environment (and there is no use to select it)...
Of course you can't do eb use or eb config before doing eb cli, that would be too easy:
ERROR: This directory has not been set up with the EB CLI
You must first run "eb init".
any way to go around this ?

Deploying to separate accounts with aws cli

I have two aws accounts : production and staging. I'm using aws-cli v3 to deploy via GIT to my production environment using eb deploy
I want to be able to deploy to my staging environment regularly from my develop branch and when it comes to deploying a release I want to be able to deploy from my newly created release branch to my production environment.
I already have my ~/.aws/config file with my two account key sets (staging and production), and would like to be able to do something like:
eb deploy --profile staging
and
eb deploy --profile production
Is it necessary to have the two environments under the same account and use eb use production-env and eb use staging-env?
A similar question has already been answered here
Also it does look like the eb command does support profiles
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/eb3-cmd-commands.html
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/eb3-cmd-commands.html#eb3-cmd-options

Is there a way to deploy to Elastic Beanstalk if you are not using git?

I am developing an Elastic Beanstalk app. It is a Scala web application, built with sbt. I want to deploy the resulting WAR from the command line to an existing environment.
All I can find is the eb CLI which appears to require you to use git: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/eb-cli3-getting-started.html
Is there not a way to simply specify a WAR and environment name to perform the deployment?
What is the best workaround otherwise? I can upload to S3 from the command line and then use the web app to choose that file, but it's a bit more painful than I wanted.
You can use Elastic Beanstalk CLI (eb) instead of AWS CLI. Just run eb create to create a new environment and eb deploy to update your environment.
You can set specific artifact (your *.war file), by configuring the EB CLI (read: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/eb-cli3-configuration.html#eb-cli3-artifact):
You can tell the EB CLI to deploy a ZIP or WAR file that you generate
as part of a separate build process by adding the following lines to
.elasticbeanstalk/config.yml in your project folder.
deploy:
artifact: path/to/buildartifact.zip
I found a way - use the aws CLI instead. First upload to S3 (I actually use s3cmd) then create an application version:
$ aws elasticbeanstalk create-application-version --application-name untaggeddb --version-label myLabel --source-bundle S3Bucket="bucketName",S3Key="key.war"
I believe the application version can then be deployed with update-environment also using the aws CLI.