by Adhiraj Singh, Sr. Product Manager, AWS

1. © 2016, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved
Managing your web applications with
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Adhiraj Singh
Sr. Product Manager | AWS Elastic Beanstalk

2. Agenda
• Elastic Beanstalk Introduction
• Elastic Beanstalk vs. DIY
• Getting started with Elastic Beanstalk
• Demo – Sample Application
• Custom Platforms
• Best Practices
• Deployment options
• Managed Updated
• Auto Scaling
• Other tips

3. Developer challenges
• Complexity of deploying code, provisioning
and managing infrastructure
• Expertise and time needed to manage and
configure servers, databases, load
balancers, firewalls, and networks
• How to automate application scaling
• Lack of consistency across teams

4. What is Elastic Beanstalk?
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an easy-to-use service for
deploying, scaling, and managing web applications and
services.

5. AWS Elastic Beanstalk vs. Do It Yourself
Your code
HTTP Server
Application Server
Language Interpreter
Operating System
Host
Elastic Beanstalk configures each
EC2 instance in your
environment with the components
necessary to run applications for
the selected platform.
Focus on building your
application
Provided by you
Provided and managed by AWS Elastic Beanstalk (EB)
On-instance configuration

6. AWS Elastic Beanstalk vs. Do It Yourself
• Preconfigured Infrastructure
• Single Instance (Dev, Low Cost)
• Load Balanced, Auto Scaling (Production)
• Web & Worker tiers
• Elastic Beanstalk provisions necessary
infrastructure resources such as the load
balancer, Auto Scaling group, security
groups, database (optional), etc.
• Provides a unique domain name for your
application
(e.g.: youapp.regionx.elasticbeanstalk.com)
Infrastructure stack

7. Elastic Beanstalk benefits
Fast & simple
to begin
Developer
productivity/agility
Impossible
to outgrow
Complete
resource control
No additional charge to use Elastic Beanstalk.
You pay only for underlying AWS resources (i.e., EC2 instances, S3, etc.)

8. Common use cases
Websites
API
backends
Mobile
backends
Asynchronous
Workers

9. How do I get started with Elastic Beanstalk?

10. Information required to deploy application
01
02
03
04
Region
Stack (container) type
Single Instance
Load Balanced
with Auto ScalingOR
Database (RDS)
Your code
Optional
Supported Platforms
Custom Platforms
Create and manage your own custom
Elastic Beanstalk platforms for greater
control over the AMI, metadata, and
configuration options.

11. Building blocks
Application
Application Versions ( V1, V2, …,Vx)
Environment
1
Environment
2
Environment
.. n

12. How to deploy applications
1. Via AWS Management Console
2. Via AWS Toolkit for Eclipse and Visual
Studio IDE
3. Via AWS SDKs and CLI
4. Via EB command line interface
$ eb deploy

13. Deploy sample application (EB CLI)
Initial application deployment workflow
$ git clone
https://github.com/awslabs/eb-
node-express-sample.git
Download sample application02
$ eb init
Create your Elastic Beanstalk app03
Follow the prompts to configure the
environment
04
05 Create the resources and launch the
application
$ eb create
$ pip install --upgrade awsebcli
Install the AWS Elastic Beanstalk
command line interface (EB CLI)
01

14. Update sample application (EB CLI)
Update application workflow
Update your code01
$ git add .
$ git commit –m “v2.0”
$ eb deploy
Add & commit code to repository02
Open application once deployment
completes
03
$ eb open

15. Sample application details
• Application dependency management
• Configuring/customizing an environment using ebextensions
• Choosing a remote source repository: AWS CodeCommit
• Adding additional AWS resources (e.g.: DynamoDB, SNS, SQS etc.)

16. Demo

18. Custom Platform
• Create and manage your own custom Elastic Beanstalk
platforms
• Get greater control over the AMI, metadata, and
configuration
• Enforce and manage standardization/best practices across
environments (without the need for .ebextensions)

19. Custom Platform
For example: you can now create your own platforms on Ubuntu or
Red Hat Enterprise and customize your instances with
languages/frameworks currently not supported by Elastic Beanstalk
e.g. Rust, Sinatra etc.
For example: you can now create your own platform that runs
multiple Docker containers, uses encrypted AMIs or custom disk
layouts e.g. multiple volumes, EFS mounts etc.

20. Custom Platform
Creating a Custom Platform:
• Uses Packer: an open-source toll for creating machine images
• Methods: EB CLI, API, SDK
• Platform Definition archive
• Packer template:
• Platform definition file: platform.yml
• Builder:
• EB CLI:
• eb platform init
• eb platform create
• An environment called 'eb-custom-platform-builder-packer' is created in order to build the platform. This
environment will not terminated automatically. Once your platform creation has completed, you can
terminate this builder environment using the command “eb terminate”

21. Custom Platform
Using a Custom Platform in a user environment:
• Methods: AWS Management console, EB CLI, API, SDK
• EB CLI:
• eb init
• select option “Custom Platform” for the question “select a platform”
• eb create
• Console:

22. Best practices
• Deployment options
• Managed Platform Updates
• Auto Scaling
• Other tips

23. Deployment options
* Default method ^ ”All at Once” Method used
Environment Type Deployment category Method
All at Once*
Immutable (New)
Disabled*^
Immutable (New)
All at Once
Rolling*
Rolling with additional batch
Immutable
Disabled^
Rolling based on Health*
Rolling based on Time
Immutable
Single Instance
Load Balanced/Auto-Scaled
Application
Platform/Configuration
Application
Platform/Configuration

24. All at once: step 0
Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
v1 v1
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
v1v1

25. All at once: step 1
Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
v2 v2
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
v2v2

26. All at once: step 2
Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
v2 v2
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
v2v2

27. Rolling: step 0
Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
v1 v1
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
v1v1

28. Rolling: step 1
Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
v2 v2
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
v1v1

29. Rolling: step 2
Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
v2 v2
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
v1v1

30. Rolling: step 3
Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
v2 v2
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
v2v2

31. Rolling: step 4
Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
v2 v2
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
v2v2

32. Rolling with additional batch: step 0
Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
v1 v1
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
v1v1

33. Rolling with additional batch: step 1
Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
v2 v2 v1 v1
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
v1v1

34. Rolling with additional batch: step 2
Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
v2 v2 v1 v1
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
v1v1

35. Rolling with additional batch: step 3
Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
v2 v2 v2 v2
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
v1v1

36. Rolling with additional batch: step 4
Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
v2 v2 v2 v2
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
v1v1

37. Rolling with additional batch: step 5
Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
v2 v2 v2 v2
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
v1v1

38. Rolling with additional batch: step 6
Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
v2 v2
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
v2v2

39. Immutable: step 0
Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
v1 v1
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
v1v1

40. Immutable: step 1
Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
v1 v1
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
v1v1
Auto Scaling Group
v2

41. Immutable: step 2
Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
v1 v1
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
v1v1
Auto Scaling Group
v2

42. Immutable: step 3
Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
v1 v1
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
v1v1
Auto Scaling Group
v2 v2 v2v2

43. Immutable: step 4
Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
v1 v1
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
v1v1
Auto Scaling Group
v2 v2 v2v2

44. Immutable: step 5
Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
v1 v1
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
v1v1
Auto Scaling Group
v2 v2 v2v2

45. Immutable: step 6
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
Auto Scaling Group
v2 v2 v2v2

46. Immutable: step 6
Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
v2 v2
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
v2v2

47. Blue/Green: step 0
Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
v1 v1
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
v1v1

48. Blue/Green: step 1
Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
v1 v1
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
v1v1
Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
v1 v1
myapp_new.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
v1v1
Cloned environment

49. Blue/Green: step 2
Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
v2 V2
myapp_new.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
v2v2
Cloned environment

50. Blue/Green: step 3
Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
v2 V2
myapp_new.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
v2v2
Cloned environment

51. Blue/Green: step 3
Cloned environment
Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
v2 V2
myapp_new.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
v2v2

52. Blue/Green: step 4

53. Blue/Green: step 5
Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
v1 v1
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
v1v1
Cloned environment
Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
v2 V2
myapp_new.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
v2v2

54. Blue/Green: step 6
Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
v1 v1
myapp_new.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
v1v1
Cloned environment
Auto Scaling Group
Elastic Beanstalk Environment
v2 V2
myapp.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
v2v2

55. Application deployment options
Method Impact of failed deployment
Deploy
Time
Zero
Downtime
No DNS
Change
Rollback
process
Code
Deployed
To
All at Once Downtime  X  Re-deploy Existing
instances
Rolling Single batch out of service. Any
successful batches prior to
failure running new application
version
♦   Re-deploy Existing
instances
Rolling with
additional batch
Minimum if first batch fails,
otherwise similar to Rolling
♦   Re-deploy New &
existing
instances
Immutable Minimal    Re-deploy New
instances
Blue/Green Minimal   X Swap URL New
instances
 Options available for both Single Instance and Load Balanced/Auto-Scaled Environments ♦ Varies depending on instance batch size

56. Managed Platform Update
Configure your environment to automatically upgrade to the latest
version of a platform during a scheduled maintenance window.
• Permissions
• Maintenance Window
• Minor and Patch Updates
Key benefits:
• Automated Upgrades
• No/Minimal downtime
• No/Minimal impact on capacity
• Flexibility of manual updates
• Instance replacement

57. Demo
Managed updates

59. Auto Scaling
Min/Max
instances
Availability
Zones
Scaling
cooldown
Triggers based
scaling
Trigger measurement
(CPU utilization, network traffic, disk
activity, instance health)
Trigger statistic
Measurement period
Breach duration
Thresholds
Breach scale increment
Time-based
scaling
Name
Min/Max instance
Occurrence (One-time, Recurrent)
Recurrence (CRON expression- 30 8 * * 3)

60. Other tips
Logs, Metrics, & Alarms
• Enable log rotation to automatically publish logs to S3.
• Understand metrics available for your environment and what they mean.
• Set up alarms to automatically monitor critical metrics and send notifications when
metrics are outside normal operating range.
• Enable Amazon Route 53 health checks and alarms
Tag your environments
• Makes it easy to find resources belonging to a given environment.
• Can be used to monitor costs associated with a given environment and/or
application.
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk automatically tags environments with:
• Environment Name
• Environment ID

61. Key links
Elastic beanstalk resources:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/RelatedResources.html
Sample application:
https://github.com/awslabs/eb-node-express-sample
Troubleshooting tips:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/troubleshooting.html
Tutorials and samples:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/tutorials.html
Deployment options:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/using-features.deploy-existing-version.html
Managed Updates:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/environment-platform-update-managed.html
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/iam-servicerole.html#iam-servicerole-update
Configuring Auto Scaling:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/using-features.managing.as.html
Load Testing with Locust:
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/using-locust-on-aws-elastic-beanstalk-for-distributed-load-generation-and-testing/
https://github.com/awslabs/eb-locustio-sample
Tagging your Elastic Beanstalk resources:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/using-features.tagging.html

62. Key links- Custom Platforms
• GitHub samples: https://github.com/awslabs/eb-custom-platforms-samples/tree/master
• Custom Platform overview:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/custom-platforms.html
• EB CLI Commands – eb platform:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/eb3-platform.html

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