AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Overview

Elastic Beanstalk is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) for deploying and scaling web applications and services.

Real-life Use Cases

• Cloud Architect: Rapidly prototype and deploy web apps.

• DevOps Engineer: Automate blue/green deployments for zero downtime.

Terraform Example

resource "aws_elastic_beanstalk_environment" "app_env" {
  name                = "my-app-env"
  application         = aws_elastic_beanstalk_application.app.name
  solution_stack_name = "64bit Amazon Linux 2 v3.3.6 running Python 3.8"
}

resource "aws_elastic_beanstalk_application" "app" {
  name = "my-app"
}

AWS CLI Example

aws elasticbeanstalk create-application --application-name my-app
aws elasticbeanstalk create-environment --application-name my-app --environment-name my-app-env --solution-stack-name "64bit Amazon Linux 2 v3.3.6 running Python 3.8"

Best Practices

• Use environment variables for configuration.

• Enable enhanced health reporting.

Common Pitfalls

• Not versioning application deployments.

• Ignoring environment health warnings.

Joke: Why did Elastic Beanstalk get so popular? It always knew how to grow on you!