Creating an Elastic Beanstalk Environment: 🏡

A Step-by-Step Guide 🪜

• Setting up your application on Amazon Elastic Beanstalk is a seamless process that allows for easy deployment and scaling. Follow these steps to create your environment:

Step 1: Open Elastic Beanstalk and Create Environment 📭

Step 2: Configure Environment 📊

• Open a new page and click on the web server.

• Provide a suitable application name, let the environment name be selected automatically, and specify the domain name.

Step 3: Platform Configuration

• Scroll down the page.

• In the Platform section, select “Docker.”

• Choose “Docker running on 64bit Amazon Linux 2023” as the platform branch.

• For the application code, select “Sample application” and click Next.

Step 4: Configure Service Access

• Configure the service access settings.

• Select the appropriate options based on whether you are a first-time Elastic Beanstalk user or not.

• Specify the EC2 key pair and choose the EC2 instance profile role.

Step 5: Networking Setup: 🖧

• Select the VPC for networking.

• Choose whether to give your EC2 instance a public IP.

• Specify the required subnets for your EC2 instance.

Step 6: Database Configuration 🛢️

• Scroll down the page.

• Configure database settings if needed.

• Enable database, select subnets, and fill in the required details.

Step 7: Instance and Scaling Configuration 🖳

• Configure instance settings.

• Select the root volume type and Amazon CloudWatch monitoring interval

Step 8: Security Group Selection 🔏

• Select the security group for the environment.

Step 9: ➕ ➖ Autoscaling 📑 Configuration 🖥️🖥🖥️🖥🖥️🖥🖥️🖥🖥️🖥🖥️

• Configure autoscaling for the environment.

• Choose “Loadbalanced” for the environment type and set minimum and maximum instances.

Step 10: 📐📏✏️Architecture and 🖥🖥️Instance Type: 🤔

• Select the architecture (default: “s86_64”).

• Choose the EC2 instance type.

• AMI ID is selected automatically.

Step 11: Scaling Triggers 🎚️

• Use default scaling triggers settings.

Step 12: Load Balancer Networking 🖧⚖

• Configure load balancer settings.

• Select visibility and subnets for the load balancer.

Step 13: Load Balancer Type and Listener 🎧

• Select the load balancer type.

• Add a listener if needed.

Step 14: Load Balancer Rules 📝

• Use default load balancer rules.

Step 15: Monitoring and Logging 📈

• Open the next page.

• Select monitoring and logging settings.

• Choose “enhanced” for system settings and enable CloudWatch custom metrics for instances and the environment.

Step 16: Managed Updates and SNS Notification 📌📌

• Optionally, configure managed updates and SNS notification for platform updates.

Step 17: Rolling Updates 📣

• Leave all next options as default.

Step 18: Platform Software 📀

• Configure platform software settings.

• Select the proxy server as “nginx” or none.

Step 19: Logs Storage on S3 📦 🧺

• Configure S3 log storage settings if needed.

• Provide credentials if required.

Step 20: Final Steps ⛳

• Press next.

• Review all details carefully and press submit.

• After creating the environment, click on “Upload and Deploy,” choose the file “project.zip,” and upload the code.

• After successfully deploying the code, your webpage should be working.