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AWS Elastic Beanstalk

AWS Elastic Beanstalk - Node.js Tutorial

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk

- [Presenter] This application has been set up specifically to work with Elastic Beanstalk, but I wanted to call out a few of of the issues you might find in deploying your own application to the system. While the Elastic Beanstalk system is compelling particularly if you're already using other AWS services, there are some things that might trip you up. It can be tempting to set up applications in the console using the UI and then try to use the resulting application environments from the command line, but I've found this interaction to be inconsistent. Many times I create a new application and it takes a great deal of time for it to show up on the other side, if you will. If you're planning to integrate using the EB command line tools, it's best to do your application and environment control completely from there. It can be very frustrating to try to move back and forth, and finding unexpected lag between the two. You need to take the time to set up SSH access to your EB instances…

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