Elastic Beanstalk is a platform within AWS that is used for deploying and scaling web applications. You use an Elastic Beanstalk action to deploy application code to your deployment environment.
Topics
Action type
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Category:
Deploy -
Owner:
AWS -
Provider:
ElasticBeanstalk -
Version:
1
Configuration parameters
- ApplicationName
-
Required: Yes
The name of the application that you created in Elastic Beanstalk.
- EnvironmentName
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Required: Yes
The name of the environment that you created in Elastic Beanstalk. An environment is a collection of AWS resources running an application version. Each environment runs only one application version at a time, however, you can run the same application version or different application versions in many environments simultaneously.
Input artifacts
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Number of artifacts:
1 -
Description: The input artifact for the action.
Output artifacts
-
Number of artifacts:
0 -
Description: Output artifacts do not apply for this action type.
Service role permissions:
ElasticBeanstalk deploy action
For Elastic Beanstalk, the following are the minimum permissions needed to create pipelines
with an ElasticBeanstalk deploy action.
{ "Effect": "Allow", "Action": [ "elasticbeanstalk:*", "ec2:*", "elasticloadbalancing:*", "autoscaling:*", "cloudwatch:*", "s3:*", "sns:*", "cloudformation:*", "rds:*", "sqs:*", "ecs:*" ], "Resource": "resource_ARN" },
Note
You should replace wildcards in the resource policy with the resources for the account you want to limit access to. For more information about creating a policy that grants least-privilege access, see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/best-practices.html#grant-least-privilege.
Action declaration
Name: Deploy
Actions:
- Name: Deploy
ActionTypeId:
Category: Deploy
Owner: AWS
Provider: ElasticBeanstalk
Version: '1'
RunOrder: 1
Configuration:
ApplicationName: my-application
EnvironmentName: my-environment
OutputArtifacts: []
InputArtifacts:
- Name: SourceArtifact
Region: us-west-2
Namespace: DeployVariables
See also
The following related resources can help you as you work with this action.
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Deploying a Flask application to Elastic Beanstalk – This tutorial walks you through the creation of your application and environment resources in Elastic Beanstalk using a sample Flask application. You can then build your pipeline with an Elastic Beanstalk deployment action that deploys your application from your source repository to your Elastic Beanstalk environment.
