Chapter 11: Using Elastic Beanstalk to Deploy your Application
Knowing and understanding Elastic Beanstalk is essential to the DevOps Pro exam. How to use the service's nuances, what the service's limitations are, and especially the way Beanstalk interacts with containers can be vital knowledge for both passing the exam and getting application teams up and running quickly in the real world.
In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:
- Understanding the built-in functionality of Elastic Beanstalk
- Creating a service role in the IAM console
- Installing and using the Elastic Beanstalk command-line interface (EB CLI)
- Understanding advanced configuration options with .ebextensions
- Using Elastic Beanstalk to deploy an application
- Elastic Beanstalk use cases