Using Elasticbeanstalk

Deploy with Debugging options:

$ eb deploy --debug

Some other debugging options:

$ eb status --verbose

$ eb health --refresh

Create env and SSH Into it:

$ create eb-poc-env-without-rds
$ eb ssh esh eb-poc-env-without-rds

Deploy:

To deploy a zip, put the following in your .elasticbeanstalk/config.yaml

...
    deploy:
  artifact: app.zip

Then run this on the machine that you are deploying from:

$ zip -r app.zip .

That recursively creates a zip in the current directory you are at. The zip can be deployed with:

$ eb deploy --debug

In another console you can check the current activity with:

$ eb events -f

Create env with RDS also configured:

You can create an environment with RDS with the following:

$ eb create --instance_type t2.micro --database.engine mysql --database.username dbuser eb-poc-env-with-rds

RDS Password:

Enable Cloudwatch Instance logs

You can enable instance logs for Elasticbeanstalk that will log to Cloudwatch. This can be done via the command line with:

$ eb logs --cloudwatch-logs enable