Aws Elastic beanstalk

ebextention example folder

As we can see we have a .ebextentions and config file that is a yaml file

beanstalk and single docker 3

This setup only uses docker on ec2 and not ecs behind the scenes

deployment traffic splitting 3

Traffic splitting is fully automated

Elastic Beanstalk and cloudformation example

We can see in cloudformation that we have stacks that got created automatically when we created our elastic beanstalk

deployment blue green

Blue/green is a manual process currently and not automated

beanstalk ebextention 3

Point of using ebextention is to use configuration that we do in UI for elastic beanstalk in a file You can add resources that you cannot using elastic beanstalk concole For example anything created in .ebextention folder will go away such as elasticache if you get rid of elastic beanstalk

elastic beanstalk lifecycle

With beanstalk lifecycle, it will just remove them from the interface but you can keep the code still in s3

web server vs worker tier

a worker enviroment does not have direct access by web, instead only sqs that sends messages

Elastic Beanstalk and cloudformation

the UI only allows limited resources to be deployed but cloudformation