I have an application I want to deploy as a Docker container using Amazons Beanstalk platform. However the application is only certified against v17 of Docker, but Beanstalk uses v18 of Docker.
Is there a way of configuring Beanstalk to use a specific version of Docker? I cannot find any options to do this when I create my application within the AWS console (I have signed up for a free account so maybe such an option is for paid versions).
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why Elastic beanstalk restore to old version in AWS.
i try to deploy simple leraval project to aws.
Elastic Beanstalk is a service that makes it easy to deploy, run, and scale web applications and services on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. When you deploy your application to Elastic Beanstalk, it creates an environment for your application and manages the details of the infrastructure and application components for you.
In some cases, Elastic Beanstalk may automatically restore your application to a previous version if it detects that the new version you are deploying is not working correctly. This can happen if the new version is not compatible with the environment or if it is causing errors. Restoring to a previous version can help prevent downtime or other issues with your application.
It is important to carefully test your application before deploying it to Elastic Beanstalk, to ensure that it is compatible with the environment and will run smoothly. This can help prevent issues like an automatic restoration to a previous version
I was looking at using Elastic Beanstalk with Multicontainer support, although, it seems that AWS is scheduling the retirement of this platform / functionality.
Here is the documentation for supported platform for Elastic Beanstalk: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/platforms/platforms-supported.html
I used the Docker version 64bit Amazon Linux 2 v3.4.4 running Docker and that version does not support using Dockerrun.aws.json version 2 with multi containers support.
So then I came across this documentation: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/platforms/platforms-retiring.html#platforms-retiring.mcdocker
Multi containers support is marked as retiring platform, I was wondering why basically?
Is there a version coming soon or Elastic Beanstalk would just stop doing multi containers support?
Thanks a lot!
The Multicontainer Docker (Amazon Linux AMI) was based on ECS to support muliti-container docker. But since regular Docker environment now supports docker-compose you can multi-containers without ECS:
Docker Compose features. This platform will allow you to leverage the features provided by the Docker Compose tool to define and run multiple containers. You can include the docker-compose.yml file to deploy to Elastic Beanstalk.
Docker Compose makes is much easier to use multi-containers on EB, thus support for ECS seems redundant.
I believe this tool will be used for containerized web applications- https://aws.amazon.com/apprunner/
I have a web application that uses Selenium in backend to run few scripts when invoked by user. I want to deploy this web app on AWS.
Here are my findings so far:
I can have a windows EC2 instance created and then I can install tomcat, firefox and all the necessary stuff. Then using putty or any other client, I can deploy my war and start tomcat.
I can directly make use of Elastic Beanstalk and deploy my war file there itself but then, there is no windows EC2 available for beanstalk and I don't know how to install firefox there and make my application work.
What is the best way to achieve this and what steps should I follow. I want to install a specific firefox version to be able to make it run with my selenium scripts.
There are two separate things here:
Deployment of web application on AWS cloud
Run the selenium tests against your web application
According to me, you should first think of deploying a web application to AWS cloud. There are many ways by which you can get it deployed to AWS cloud with below services:
Spin a new AWS EC2 instance, install all required software and deploy the web application.
Use AWS elastic beanstalk service with either with tomcat or docker.
Use AWS ECS if you prefer docker
According to me, second option will be quick for you with tomcat environment option. If you select tomcat environment, then your platform will be Tomcat 8 Java 8 on 64bit Amazon Linux.
Now, here comes the second part. You can have below options for your browser environments.
Spin a new separate AWS EC2 instances with correct AMI and install your specific browsers on these instances.
If you prefer SaaS, then you can take a look at browserstack or SauceLabs for remote environment.
If you have CI(jenkins/travis/Circle CI), then make use of that infrastructure to luanch your tests with either option from the above.
I have a J2EE web application running on JBoss and RHEL/CentOS.
What would be the best option available in AWS to migrate my application to cloud?
Option 1: Provision EC2 instance with RHEL/CentOS and deploy JBoss and deploy application war files.
Option 2: Deploy application into Elastic Beanstalk using Docker.
Option 3: Deploy application into Elastic Beanstalk using Java.
Option 3 does not suite me as they only support Tomcat.
Option 2 may suite me if I make code changes to deploy into Docker container.
Option 1 may suite me the best, but it may not be possible to auto-scale.
Kindly advice me if my understanding is correct or not and if you have any better ideas for running J2EE application using JBoss in AWS.
Much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
I got a local Docker stack running Node.js, MongoDB and Nginx.
It runs perfectly using docker-compose up --build.
Now it's time to deploy my application to a production environment.
I have considered EC2 Container Service and EC2, but can you recommend an easier approach? The learning curve is steep!
For MongoDB -
Use AWS quick start MongoDB
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/quickstart/latest/mongodb/overview.html
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/quickstart/latest/mongodb/architecture.html
For rest of the docker stack i.e NodeJS & Nginx -
Use the AWS ElasticBeanstalk Multi Container Deployment
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/create_deploy_docker_ecs.html
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/create_deploy_docker_v2config.html
Elastic Beanstalk supports Docker, as documented here. Elastic Beanstalk would manage the EC2 resources for you so that you, which should make things a bit easier on you.
You can install Kontena to AWS and use that to deploy your application to production environment (of course other cloud providers are also supported). Transition from Docker Compose is very smooth since kontena.yml uses similar syntax and keys as docker-compose.yml.
With Kontena you will have private image registry, load balancer and secret management built-in that are very useful when running containers in production.