By Wolfgang Unger

This short tutorial shows how to deploy a simple ElasticBeanstalk application ( and environment )
Install the EB commandline
If you don't have the EB CLI yet installed, please take a look in this docu and install

Install EB CLI

Basically you have to execute
pip install awsebcli --upgrade --user
and add %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python37\Scripts to you PATH variable ( on windows)

Setup the Application with CLI
First switch to your workspace folder ( for example eb-cli-test) and execute the following commands :
eb init
this will give you the list of aws-regions to choose from ( for install your eb-application)

choose your region, I will choose 4

For the option
Select an application to use
you can keep 3 and create a new application

Let's type HelloWorld

Let's select PHP (8)

Select a platform branch. You can stick to 1

Next: Do you want to setup SSH?
For this simple example let's say no, of course for a real application you want to setup this

Take a look in the new .elasticbeanstalk folder, you should a config.yaml with this content

                        branch-defaults:
                          default:
                            environment: null
                            group_suffix: null
                        global:
                            application_name: HelloWorld
                            branch: null
                            default_ec2_keyname: null
                            default_platform: PHP 8.0 running on 64bit Amazon Linux 2
                            default_region: eu-central-1
                            include_git_submodules: true
                            instance_profile: null
                            platform_name: null
                            platform_version: null
                            profile: null
                            repository: null
                            sc: null
                            workspace_type: Application                        
                                        

Please have a look the region and name confirms you your earlier inputs.

Next we are going to create a index.html file
Just type
echo "Hello AWS Friends" > index.html
which will create the html file

Next we will create the environment and application with this command:
eb create int-env

Now you can already have a look in your AWS Account -> ElasticBeanstalk
and you should be able to see this environment (can take a minute)

Please have a look to the created resources ( EC2 instance, Autocaling Group, etc )

If you update your application files, for example you can modify the index.html, you have to execute
eb deploy

Some more commands you can use:
Open the application (here open a browser with the application URL)
eb open

Check the application status
eb status

check the app health
eb health

Finally let's terminate our application to avoid further costs:
eb terminate