Getting started using Elastic Beanstalk

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To help you understand how AWS Elastic Beanstalk works, this tutorial walks you through creating, exploring, updating, and deleting an Elastic Beanstalk application. It takes less than an hour to complete.

There is no cost for using Elastic Beanstalk, but the AWS resources that it creates for this tutorial are live (and don't run in a sandbox). You incur the standard usage fees for these resources until you terminate them at the end of this tutorial. The total charges are typically less than a dollar. For information about how to minimize charges, see AWS free tier.

Topics

• Setting up: Create an AWS account
• Step 1: Create an example application
• Step 2: Explore your environment
• Step 3: Deploy a new version of your application
• Step 4: Configure your environment
• Step 5: Clean up
• Next steps

When you have an application hosted on AWS EC2 instances which runs on an environment file, like laravel framework needs .env environment file, it is always a pain to manage environment variables.

Specially when you have multiple EC2 instances running for production on an auto-scaling setup. Please note that these are not host OS environment variable, but the application framework's environment variables in the respective env file.

You may alternatively call them application configuration files. You mostly do not add them in git or bitbucket due to the possibility of them containing sensitive information, e.g. database passwords, AWS access credentials etc..