Installing and using the Elastic Beanstalk command-line interface (EB CLI)

There are a number of commands available from the AWS CLI that allow you, as a user, to take advantage of Elastic Beanstalk.

Basic commands supplied by the EB CLI include those that will do things all the way from creating the correct project structure in your local environment to quickly and efficiently pulling down the log files from your instances for review. We will now review the basic commands that the EB CLI provides, along with a short description of their nature, as follows:

• eb create: This command will create a new local environment for Elastic Beanstalk and deploys an initial application version to that directory structure.
• eb status: This command returns the status of your environment, including items such as application name, region, CNAME, and health status.
• eb health: This command returns the health status of the instances in your environment, updating every 10 seconds.
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