Customize Elastic Beanstalk

- [Instructor] Even though Elastic Beanstalk…handles all the challenges of…app server provisioning and deployment,…you may still find that you need to go further.…Let's look at some ways that you can customize…Elastic Beanstalk.…There are three distinct ways that you can customize…the instances created by Beanstalk.…First, a custom AMI…with modifications baked into your launch configuration.…Second, user data.…Custom scripts that are executed on startup.…And finally, .ebextensions,…which is a lightweight configuration management tool…provided by Beanstalk.…

First, custom AMI.…To use a custom AMI with Beanstalk…you need to build an instance…with a configuration that you want.…Bake an AMI out of that…and update your Beanstalk auto scaling group's…launch configuration to use this new AMI.…Just make sure that your AMI is based off…an existing Beanstalk instance…to ensure that it has the Beanstalk agent running.…Pros and cons.…This is probably the slowest way to make changes…to your configuration.…After all, it requires spinning up an instance,…