Setting up Elastic Beanstalk

Creating new environment

• Click Create a new environment
  • Select environment tier
    • Choose web server environment
  • Create environment
    • Application name
      • Name whatever you would like, for the example app Jarvis, I would choose jarvis-production
    • Environment information
      • Leave default
    • Platform
      • Platform - Docker
      • Platform branch - Multi-container Docker running on 64 bit Amazon Linux
      • Platform version- leave at default
    • Application code
      • Sample application - Leave at sample application
    • Now click configure more options
      • This will open up a configuration page to configure to our specifications

Configuring Elastic Beanstalk environment after creation

• Software

  • Under Instance log streaming to CloudWatch Logs click Enabled
  • Under Environment properties add your environmental variables. You do not need to add RDS variables at this time.
  • Finally, click Apply

• Load Balancing

  • Click Capacity
  • Under Environment type select Load balanced
    • Min - 1
    • Max - 4
    • Leave rest as default and click Save
  • Now you should be able to edit the Load balance tab.
    • Make sure Application Load Balancer is selected
    • Under Listeners click Add listener
      • Listener port - 443
      • Listener protocol - HTTPS
      • SSL certificate - SSL Certificate that you created previously
      • SSL policy - ELBSecurityPolicy-TLS-1-2-2017-01
      • Leave default process as default
      • Click Add
  • Click Save

• Network

  • There will be an “error” saying that this environment is not part of a VPC. Click Edit
    • Select the VPC configuration (todo - document this step)
  • Load balancer settings
    • Just select the first two availability zones for now, can expand in the future
      • Ex: us-east-1a and us-east-1b
    • Select same zones for Instance settings

• Database

  • Engine - postgres
  • Engine version - 12.2
  • Instance class - Leave as micro
  • Storage - Leave as 5
  • Username - Whatever you want (ex: jarvisuser)
  • Password - Whatever you want

Click Create New Environment to set-up the environment