Using Elastic Beanstalk to deploy an application
The best way to understand some of these services is to test them out with a hands-on example. This is most certainly the case with Elastic Beanstalk, as you need to be able to think about the capabilities of the service when reading through both the questions and answers that the DevOps professional exam presents you with.
We are going to continue with our example code from before that we started earlier in this chapter. If you didn't do the first part of the exercise and you want to deploy the application, then it's suggested that you go back to the part of the chapter entitled Using the EB CLI to create a project.
If you have previously closed your terminal window, then you will need to open it up again and navigate back to the 11-beanstalk folder. We already initiated our environment locally previously, and can now proceed as follows:
- Since our environment has been initiated previously, we can create our...
