How to use AWS CLI with Elastic Beanstalk?

Question

In the documentation it states that the EB CLI is replaced by AWS CLI but all of the documentation is still talking about EB CLI.

I have created an application in Elastic Beanstalk console and now I'm ready to start developing. I have all the tools installed on Ubuntu and I've already tested it locally. Now I want to deploy it to Elastic Beanstalk. How do I do this with AWS CLI?

Answer 1

You have to create a source bundle from your application, see details here: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/applications-sourcebundle.html (Or alternatively you can use AWS CodeCommit or AWS CodeBuild as source for your application.)

Then you can use the AWS CLI to create a new version from your application and deploy it to one application environment. (See the CLI documentation for EBS here.)

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Create a source bundle:

zip MyCodeBundle.zip <source files>

Upload that to S3:

aws s3 cp MyCodeBundle.zip s3://a-bucket-where-you-store-your-source-bundles/

Create a new application version using the source bundle you just uploaded:

aws elasticbeanstalk create-application-version --application-name YourEBSAppName --version-label YourVersionLabel --source-bundle S3Bucket="a-bucket-where-you-store-your-source-bundles",S3Key="MyCodeBundle.zip"

And finally you update one of your environments to use that version (this is deploy even though that verb is completely missing from the new AWS CLI for EBS - this was a little confusing for me):

aws elasticbeanstalk update-environment --application-name YourEBSAppName --environment-name YourEBSEnvironmentName --version-label YourVersionLabel