AWS Elastic Beanstalk from Command Line

• Lets take a sample python based application and deploy this into elastic beanstalk
• I would like to deploy from command line

Setting up AWS CLI

• AWS CLI on Windows Refer Here
• Mac users

curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/AWSCLIV2.pkg" -o "AWSCLIV2.pkg"
sudo installer -pkg AWSCLIV2.pkg -target /

• Ubuntu Linux:
  • Lets create the keypair with pem file
    
    
    
  • Create ec2 instance with size t2.micro with key pair created above
    
    
    
    
• Now ensure you have Windows Powershell (latest update on Windows 10/Windows 11). If you are working on earlier versions of windows ensure atlest gitbash is installed. Refer Here
• For Mac users => Launch Terminal
• The command to login ssh -i <path to pem> ubuntu@<publicip>
  
• Installing AWS CLI on ubuntu:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install unzip -y
curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip"
unzip awscliv2.zip
sudo ./aws/install

• Now verify the installation using aws --version
  
• Now create an IAM user Refer Here
• Login into ec2 instance and execute aws configure. Enter access key, secret access key, region (us-west-2)
• Now we need to verify access aws s3 ls this command should not throw error
• Now we need to install elastic beanstalk cli eb-cli
  • Approach 1 Refer Here
  • Approach 2 Refer Here
    sudo apt install python3-pip -y
  • Now install eb-cli pip install awsebcli --upgrade --user
  • Now we need to set the path
  • Add export PATH=~/.local/bin:$PATH to ~/.bashrc
  • Now logout and login eb --version
    
• New to linux: Understand the following
  • sudo
  • apt
  • PATH variable and its importance
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