Deploying Ruby applications with Elastic Beanstalk

This chapter provides instructions for configuring and deploying your Ruby web application to AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Elastic Beanstalk makes it easy to deploy, manage, and scale your Ruby web applications using Amazon Web Services.

You can deploy your application in just a few minutes using the Elastic Beanstalk Command Line Interface (EB CLI) or by using the Elastic Beanstalk console. After you deploy your Elastic Beanstalk application, you can continue to use the EB CLI to manage your application and environment, or you can use the Elastic Beanstalk console, AWS CLI, or the APIs.

This chapter also provides step-by-step instructions for deploying a sample application to Elastic Beanstalk using the EB CLI, and then updating the application to use the Rails and Sinatra web application frameworks.

The topics in this chapter assume that you have some knowledge of Elastic Beanstalk environments. If you haven't used Elastic Beanstalk before, try the getting started tutorial to learn the basics.