I have an AWS MSK cluster running inside a VPC with 3 subnets.
When I created my Elastic Beanstalk (Java) environment it asked for VPC and I configured the same VPC where my MSK cluster is running. I also selected all the three listed subsets in my Elastic Beanstalk Network configuration. I did not assigned a public IP as I don't require access from internet to Elastic Beanstalk instances.
I also assigned AWS MSK Full Access permissions to the IAM Instance Profile that I selected for my Elastic Beanstalk environment under Security configuration. Just for information completeness, I selected the AWSServiceRoleForElasticBeanstalk as a service role.
On a side note, when I configured my Lambda to access the MSK cluster, it asked me for VPC as well as Security Groups explicitly. But I don't see any such configuration options for Security Groups in case of Elastic Beanstalk. Am I overlooking something here? my Lambda is able to successfully access MSK cluster.
I don't understand why my Elastic Beanstalk instance is unable to access my AWS MSK cluster. Am I missing something?
With the help of AWS Support, I was able to resolve this issue.
First, you can configure Security Groups under 'Instances' configuration card.
But, it was a bit confusing for me because, the VPC and Subnets are under 'Networking' configuration card, which is stacked way after the 'Instances' configuration card. And the Security Groups listed under 'Instances' directly depends on the VPC and Subnets selected under 'Networking'. If you change your selection in 'Networking' then you should update/review your Security Groups selection under 'Instances' as well.
So, in my case, first I select my target VPC and related Subnets under 'Networking' and only then I was able to see my target Security Groups under 'Instances'.
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I want to create 3 AWS Elastic Beanstalk instances and assign them to VPC with internal IP addresses. As you can see I have a default VPC created and running:
When I try to create a new AWS Elastic Beanstalk instance under the same Ohio region into the menu I see just see empty list of VPC:
Do you know what configuration I need to do in order to assign AWS Elastic Beanstalk instances to VPC?
EDIT:
I use this form to create VPC:
It seems like you did not select the Application Platform in Elastic Beanstalk's application creation process.
Try picking a platform before configuring more options.
I am doing a reading on AWS EMR on VPC but it seems like it is more of design consideration for AWS EMR Service to access EMR cluster for calls.
What I am trying to do is host a VPC with ALB and EC2 instance running an application as a service to access EMR cluster.
VPC -> Internet Gateway -> Load Balancer -> EC2 (Application endpoints) -> EMR Cluster
I don't want Cluster to be accessible from outside except through Public IP of IG. But Public IP can access only EC2 instance hosting application which calls EMR cluster on same VPC.
Is it recommended approach?
The design looks something like below.
Some challenges I am tackling is how to access S3 from EMR if on VPC,
and if the application is running on EC2 can it access EMR cluster, and if EMR cluster would be available publicly?
Any guidance links or recommendations would be welcome.
EDIT:
Or if I create EMR on VPC do i need to wrap it inside of another VPC something like below?
The simplest design is:
Put everything in a public subnet in a VPC
Use Security Groups to control access to the EMR cluster
If you are security-paranoid, then you could use:
Put publicly-accessible resources (eg EC2) in a public subnet
Put EMR in a private subnet
Use a NAT Gateway or VPC-Endpoints to allow EMR to communicate with S3 (which is outside the VPC)
The first option is simpler and Security Groups act as firewalls that can fully protect the EMR cluster. You would create three security groups:
ELB-SG: Permit inbound access from the Internet on your desired ports. Associate the security group with your Load Balancer.
EC2-SG: Permit inbound access from ELB-SG (from the Security Group itself). Associate the security group with your EC2 instances.
EMR-SG: Permit inbound access from EC2-SG (from the Security Group itself). Associate EMR-SG with the EMR cluster.
This will permit only the Load Balancer to communicate with the EC2 instances and only the EC2 instances to communicate with the EMR cluster. The EMR cluster will be able to connect directly to the Internet to access Amazon S3 due to default rules permitting Outbound access.
Can someone please clearly explain in a step-by-step guide and in simple terms from start to finish how to properly setup a private RDS instance that connects to:
Elastic Beanstalk instance where the the environment is using a load balancing, auto scaling web server environment using PHP as it’s platform.
MySQL Workbench
Side note, the EB and RDS instance(s) are all in the same VPC. I suppose in reality this may be more of a how to properly setup and connect IAM profiles and roles question.
In essence, I want to restrict all internet access from the RDS instance, while still allowing my EB instance or other resources i.e other EC2 instances (all located in the same VPC) the ability to connect to the RDS instance, while also allowing me to use (connect to) a DB tool like MySQL Workbench.
Elastic Beanstalk Security Questions:
Instance Profile: How should I setup/config this role and it’s associated policy
Service Profile: How should I setup/config this role and it’s associated policy
RDS Security Questions:
VPC Security Groups: How should I setup/config this security group(s) to allow access from EB instance, other specified resources (EC2), and MySQL Workbench
The error message is:
Stack named 'awseb-e-r3uhxvhyz7-stack' aborted operation. Current state: 'CREATE_FAILED' Reason: The following resource(s) failed to create: [AWSEBInstanceLaunchWaitCondition].
I am trying to use Multi-Container Docker in AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
Can someone help me to get rid of this error.Is it necessary to use more than one EC2 instance for using Multi-Container Docker in AWS Elastic Beanstalk?
This sound kinda what your issue is:
If you use Amazon VPC with Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon EC2 instances deployed in a private subnet cannot communicate directly with the Internet. Amazon EC2 instances must have Internet connectivity to communicate to Elastic Beanstalk that they were successfully launched. To provide EC2 instances in a private subnet with Internet connectivity, you must add a load balancer and NAT to the public subnet. You must create the appropriate routing rules for inbound and outbound traffic through the load balancer and NAT. You must also configure the default Amazon VPC security group to allow traffic from the Amazon EC2 instances to the NAT instance.
Source: Amazon EC2 Instances Fail to Launch within the Wait Period
I've fixed this. It looks the like IAM role created by default for the single docker EB deployment didn't contain the necessary ECS Policy (unconfirmed).
I followed the instructions to create a policy to add the role and everyhing worked.
I've created a new environment for my beanstalk app under a vpc.
I created a vpc with private and public subnets.
I've configured the security groups as outlined here:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/AWSHowTo-vpc-basic.html
The environment seemed to setup correctly but the status is red.
Clicking on monitor reveals no data for latency or requests.
The website url returns error code 503.
Not sure what to do
This is almost certainly an issue with not being able to communicate with the NAT. The documentation is a little ambiguous when it comes to configuring your .ebextensions config files.
Don't mess with the Network ACLs for the VPC. The infrastructure needs to be able to talk to itself.
The NAT instance & Beanstalk ELB need to be in the Public subnet (10.0.0.0/24)
The Beanstalk instances themselves need to be in the Private subnet (10.0.1.0/24)
The Security Group that you apply to the instances needs to also apply to the NAT. That Security Group also needs to be on its own Inbound list so that everything inside that SG can talk to each other.
Using curl, try to make outbound calls. First on the Bastion Host, then on the NAT, then on a Beanstalk instance. Are any of them unable to make outbound calls?
I just recently spent a couple of weeks trying to develop a CloudFormation template that handles this stuff. I think that most of it is still in my brain. I think.
If these troubleshooting steps don't help, let me know and I'll dig a little deeper.
When you created the VPC, I assume you did it using the wizard. In this situation, the NAT is configured to accept calls from "default" security group.
When you created the Elastic beanstalk environment, did you specify that you want the new instances to be on "default" security group?
Check if the new instance belongs to the VPC's default security group in EC2 management area. If it is not a member of default Security group, add this security group to your NAT's inbound connections.
There is a good AWS CloudFormation template example to create VPC with public and private subnets and the NATs:
https://github.com/awsdocs/elastic-beanstalk-samples/blob/9720e38e9da155752dce132a31d8e13a27364b83/cfn-templates/vpc-privatepublic.yaml
May be very useful for those having issues with such VPC configuration.
To deploy it to your AWS using cli:
aws cloudformation deploy --stack-name mystackname --template-file path/to/vpc-privatepublic.yaml
Or you can deploy from CloudFormation UI dashboard.