0: Elastic Beanstalk Overview

Why Beanstalk?

• Quickly deploy apps w/o worrying about infra
• Easy upload application
• Geared towards software developers
• Works with containers!
• Great for testing environments

How beanstalk?

• Create “application”
  • Environments
  • Versions
  • Configuration
• Upload “version”
  • Bundled app
• Launch environment
  • AWS resources running a version
• Manage environment
• (Upload new versions)

Drawbacks of beanstalk?

• Less customizable under the hood

Alternatives?

• OpsWorks
  • Config mgmt service
  • Chef, puppet instances
  • Hybrid environments, on-prem servers reachable by chef/puppet
• CloudFormation
  • More about infra than apps
  • Can actually be used to deploy OpsWorks and Beanstalk stuff
  • I.e. works with beanstalk.