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What is the difference between Elastic Beanstalk and CloudFormation for a .NET project? [closed]

I have developed a .NET MVC application and have started playing around with AWS and deploying it via the Visual Studio Toolkit. I have successfully deployed the application using the Elastic ...
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AWS OpsWorks vs AWS Beanstalk vs AWS CloudFormation? [closed]

I would like to know what are the advantages and disadvantages of using AWS OpsWorks vs AWS Beanstalk and AWS CloudFormation? I am interested in a system that can be auto scaled to handle any high ...
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How to alias a domain name to an Elastic Beanstalk Environment using CloudFormation?

What is the correct Route 53 CloudFormation configuration to alias sub-domain names to an Elastic Beanstalk Environment ELBs? I have copied the HostedZoneIds from the Amazon Route 53 Hosted Zone ID ...
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How to handle DB migration using AWS deployment tools

Amazon Web Services offer a number of continuous deployment and management tools such as Elastic Beanstalk, OpsWorks, Cloud Formation and Code Deploy depending on your needs. The basic idea being to ...
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How to automate EBS encryption with Elastic Beanstalk

I am looking to encrypt my root EBS volumes for new EC2 environments that I create. I know that I can do this from the AWS console and from CloudFormation, but would like to be able to do so via an ...
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How do I pass UserData to a Beanstalk instance with CloudFormation

I need the application server, which is beanstalk instances, to do some actions upon startup and I thought of running a bash script passed to the instance with the UserData property which is available ...
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Issue with Elastic Beanstalk, Immutable Deployments, and CloudFormation

We have just recently begun using immutable deployments with Elastic Beanstalk. To be more specific, we enabled immutable application deployment and immutable configuration updates. We use ...
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Can an Elastic Beanstalk environment be updated in Cloudformation without affecting the version deployed to it?

I am creating an Elastic Beanstalk environment using Cloudformation. I have to create an ApplicationVersion just to get it started and feed it into the definition of the environment. I create other ...
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Redirect HTTP to HTTPS for Application Loadbalancer in Elastic Beanstalk in Cloudformation

I'm using an ALB in my Elastic Beanstalk environment. It works (on 80 and 443) but I want to implement a redirect rule in the cloudformation template. I was able to create the rule in the console: ...
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Containerisation and Orchestration which Tool to use and why

Disclosure : I have few questions for the containerization and orchestration tools available today in the market. I have worked on docker swarm, kubernetes, and Elastic Bean Stalk. Problem: I want ...
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Restore deleted AWS Cloudformation stack

Does anyone know if there is a way to restore deleted stack on AWS Cloudformation? I can see the deleted stacks in the Filter but there is no option to restore them. If restore is not possible can i ...
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Conditionally define Elastic Beanstalk environment variable using CloudFormation

I want to create an Elastic Beanstalk using CloudFormation template. I want to define an environment variable ENV_VAR_1 and set it's value to value of template parameter var1. But don't want ENV_VAR_1 ...
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Set stack-level tags in cloud formation directly without wrapper template

Want to set stack-level tags in cloud formation directly not the resource level tag. I know its doable with wrapper template concept but want directly set the stack-level tags when defining some ...
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Using CloudFormation to create Elastic Beanstalk "Hello, world." Java env/app

As far as I understand, when creating a Elastic Beanstalk environment, CloudFormation templates are created automatically to manage the env's resources. However---to avoid any confusion---this is not ...
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How to run Elastic Beanstalk commands on EC2 instance before connecting Resources

We have a situation where we would like to run a Django server in the usual Elastic Beanstalk manner while hooking up a custom Docker container to be used by the Django website. So far, I basically ...
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AWS Elastic Beanstalk not resolving secret from Secrets Manager

I'm following the instructions from https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/single-container-docker-configuration.html#docker-configuration.remote-repo to inject secrets from Secrets ...
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How Do I Specify a Security Group for Elastic Beanstalk Launch Configuration in CloudFormation Template?

I have the following security group defined in my CloudFormation template: "APIInstanceSG": { "Type": "AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup", "Properties": { "GroupDescription": "Security Group for ...
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Unable to add new environment variable to elastic beanstalk

When trying to add a new environment variable to our stack with Elastic Beanstalk we got an error: Service:AmazonCloudFormation, Message:Template format error: Parameter 'EnvironmentVariables' ...
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Add Subnets to ELBs and Subnets Value in Cloudformation Beanstalk script

I am not a JSON expert but I was able to manipulate the AWS Beanstalk VPC cloudformation template to pull a .WAR file from S3 and deploy as a new application. I also manipulated the script to create 2 ...
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How to update tags of Elastic Beanstalk environment with CloudFormation

I have an elastic beanstalk environment created with CloudFormation. Now I've added an additional tag and value but during the update of the stack I get: Elastic Beanstalk environment tags cannot be ...
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Cloudformation Elasticbeanstalk specify target group for shared load balancer

I have two Cloudformation templates one which creates a VPC, ALB and any other shared resources etc. one which creates an elastic beanstalk environment and relevant listener rules to direct traffic ...
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Dynamically set the EC2 Instance Type per Environment using ebextensions

I want to create a EC2 instance type t3.medium on all environments and m5.large on production. I'm using .ebextensions (YAML) like so: option 1: Mappings: EnvironmentMap: "production": ...
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How to set environment variable for AWS CDK with Elastic Beanstalk?

I'd like to set an environment variable that's available in my Nodejs application that's deployed to Elastic Beanstalk using AWS CDK. I've tried to add it to the Environment options, but the ...
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How do I resolve "Resource did not stabilize" when creating stack in AWS CloudFormation?

I am receiving the following error when trying to use a CloudFormation template to create a stack: Resource handler returned message: "Resource of type 'AWS::ElasticBeanstalk::Environment' with ...
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cfn-hup "on.demand" trigger in Elastic Beanstalk

I've used cfn-hup for various projects, and have followed the AWS documentation for cfn-hup. As documented on that page, there are the following trigger types listed: post.add post.update post.remove ...
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Tagging Beanstalk environments created with cloudformation

When creating an Elastic Beanstalk environment using Cloud Formation, how do you set the Tags allocated to the environment and instances? For example I have the following Resource definition: "...
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SSL cert on cloud-formed Elastic beanstalk

I have an elasticbeanstalk application instanciated by cloudformation, but I want to pass it an ARN for an SSL cert to deploy on its ELB. I know how to do it once the ELB is up, I just can't find any ...
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How To Extract Load Balancer Name from Elastic Beanstalk Environment in CloudFormation

I have created a Elastic Beanstalk and CloudWatch Alarm in CloudFormation with the following code snippet: "ElasticBeanstalkEnvironment": { "Type": "AWS::ElasticBeanstalk::Environment"...
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Elastic Beanstalk stack name in Cloudformation

I would like to ask you about defining stack name for Elastic Beanstalk in Cloudformation, when I have define something like ResBeanstalkApplication: Type: 'AWS::ElasticBeanstalk::Application' ...
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Get ARN of Network Load Balancer for Elastic Beanstalk Web Environment

Good afternoon, all: I have a CloudFormation template that creates an EBS Web Environment with an internal NLB. My plan for this is to then create a VPC Link and API Gateway to proxy to the web ...
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importValue function does not work in cloudformation

I see a very strange issue with cloud formation import value function in cloudformation. I am trying to create a cloudformation beanstalk environment. in the configurationTemplate section I have : ...
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How to define the version of nodejs for my beanstalk in cloudformation

I am trying to create a beanstalk with a specific version of nodejs: Here is my setting option of my beanstalk in cloudformation: "configurationTemplate": { "Type": "AWS::ElasticBeanstalk::...
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How common is it to use AWS Cloud Formation for repeated provisioning of AWS environments?

I'm a noobie to CloudFormation. But reading the documentation for CloudFormation, Amazon seems to think it is the method we should use to consistently, repeatedly deploy a given topology of AWS ...
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Is it possible to use Ref function on option_settings in AWS?

I am using Elastic Beanstalk to deploy a worker tier environment using SQS. In my .ebextensions I have the following file: option_settings: aws:elasticbeanstalk:sqsd: WorkerQueueURL: Ref: ...
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AWS CloudFormation: The security group 'sg-' does not exist in default VPC 'vpc'

I have this template code that I'm trying to implement to my ElasticBeanStalk app but it's referencing to my default vpc and I can't find how I can reference my own VPC not the default one. This is my ...
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AWS CloudFormation: Unable to attach the security groups to the instances of ElasticBeanstalk

I am deploying my Laravel application to AWS using CloudFormation. I creating an ElasticBeanstalk environment and deploying my application to it. But when I tried to attach the security group to the ...
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AWS CloudFormation template for sample PHP application on Beanstalk is failing

I am deploying a PHP application to ElasticBeanstalk. First, I am deploying a sample PHP application. This is my template. --- AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09' Description: 'AWS CloudFormation ...
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AWS Cloudformation+Beanstalk error Invalid YAML template

I am using the aws eb deploy command on ubuntu to deploy a cloudformation script shown below. I get an error shown below. Note: My other cloudformation scripts work without any problems. Error ...
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Creating Elastic Beanstalk environment with new application with Java Sample Application using AWS Cloud Formation template

I'm a bit stuck with this one. I managed to create an elastic beanstalk environment with my own Cloud Formation template, but I can only launch it for an existing application. How can I use the same ...
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How to provision ECR read access to Elastic beanstalk Cloudformation template?

I have an elastic beanstalk with multi-container docker CF template as following. I pushed my image to ECR separately. In Dockerrun.json, I referred to my image like this "image": ".dkr....
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How to set environment variables in AWS::ElasticBeanstalk::Environment?

I have a CloudFormation template with a section named AWS::ElasticBeanstalk::Environment. Despite its name containing the word "Environment", there appears to be no place in this section to ...
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What is the recommended AWS service for SAAS apps?

I'm looking at the various offerings form Amazon for managing a cloud based app and in short am unsure whether it is best to attempt to accomplish what I need using simply EC2 & EBS, Beanstalk, ...
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AWS::WAFv2::WebACLAssociation ResourceArn for Application Load Balancer in CloudFormation

I have a CloudFormation template which creates an ElasticBeanstalk environment like this: "ApplicationEnvironment": { "Type": "AWS::ElasticBeanstalk::...
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How to create AWS Elasticbeanstalk application with integrated RDS using CloudFormation?

I am trying to setup the AWS environment for my SpringBoot application which uses Postgres. I decided to use CloudFormation to configure all the AWS components needed for my application. Following is ...
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How to add Application Load Balancer Fixed Response to AWS Elastic Beanstalk with .ebextensions

In Order to Whitelist my API Endpoints Served on AWS ElasticBeanstalk: I would like to return a fixed response from an Application Load Balancer (ALB) in my Elastic Beanstalk environment when it ...
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Update AWS Elastic Beanstalk solution stack name

I have a Cloudformation template with the following Elastic Beanstalk environment: Resources: BeanstalkEnvironment1: Type: AWS::ElasticBeanstalk::Environment Properties: ...
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Limitations of Immutable Deployments on AWS/EB

I am trying to understand the disadvantages of immutable deployments on AWS/Elastic Beanstalk. The docs say this: You can't perform an immutable update in concert with resource configuration ...
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Elastic Beanstalk: How do I import VPCId from another Cloudformation stack using .ebextensions?

Is it possible to import the value for VPCId from other Cloudformation stacks using Fn:ImportValue in the option_settings in AWS Elastic Beanstalk? Or do the values have to be hardcoded in at this ...
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Cannot output the url of my beanstalk

I am having a problem with outputting beanstalk url in my cloudformation: Here is my outputcode: Outputs: ELB: Description: 'The environment name' Value: !GetAtt BeansEnvironmentUI.EndpointURL ...
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AWS CloudFormation + Elastic Beanstalk single instance: delete the default EIP

I am in the process of automating our deployment on AWS through CloudFormation. My template is creating a few Elastic Beanstalk environments in SingleInstance mode, in order for them to then be ...
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