Elastic Beanstalk PHP Application Deployment

Part 1 - Launch an Application

• First download the php-v1.zip and php-v2.zip files from GitHub and share them via Slack.

• Go to Elastic Beanstalk service on AWS console.

• Click Create Application.

• Enter your application name MySampleApp. (You can also add Application tags if you need.)

• Select PHP for Platform, PHP 8.0.13 running on 64bit Amazon Linux 2 for Platform Branch and (Recommended) for Platform Version.

• Select Upload your code for Application code.

• Type mysampleapp-source-V1 for Version label and select Local file. Then click choose file and upload php-v1.zip file. Check File successfully uploaded to be sure.

• Click Create Application.

• Wait for Elastic Beanstalk to create the environment for the application. Show the resources being created and listed on the console.

• After the creation of the environment click the link (Application URL) and show the Web Page.

• From the left-hand menu show the app and env menus, talk about them. Click on the tabs like Configuration, Monitoring etc. and explain them.

• Go to EC2 service on AWS console and show the resources

• Instances,

• Load Balancers,

• ASG,

• CloudFormation

• S3 bucket created by Elastic Beanstalk.

• Show that even you copy and paste the public IP of the instace created by EB nothing happened in browser. Explian the security group and source part of it.

Part 2 - Update the Application

Step 1 - Update the Application

• Go to Elastic Beanstalk service on AWS console.

• Explain the deployment policies:

https://blog.shikisoft.com/which_elastic_beanstalk_deployment_should_you_use/

• Click Mysampleapp-env on the left hand menu, and click Upload and deploy to update the application. (You can also click Application versions on the left hand menu, and then click Upload to update but you have to deploy it manually)

- Choose file           : php-v2.zip
- Version label         : mysampleapp-source-V2

- Deployment Preferences : Keep it as is `All At Once`

• Wait for Elastic Beanstalk to update the application.

• After the update completed click the link (Application URL) and show the Updated Web Page.

• Click Mysampleapp >> Application versions and show we have one app but two versions.