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Elastic Beanstalk

This document provides instructions for a lab activity where students deploy a sample application to an AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment. It guides them through accessing the environment, deploying code, and exploring the AWS resources that were created to support the application.

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Elastic Beanstalk

This document provides instructions for a lab activity where students deploy a sample application to an AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment. It guides them through accessing the environment, deploying code, and exploring the AWS resources that were created to support the application.

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Activity: AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Lab overview
This activity provides you with an Amazon Web Services (AWS)
account where an AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment has been pre-
created for you. You will deploy code to it and observe the AWS
resources that make up the Elastic Beanstalk environment.

Duration
This activity takes approximately 30 minutes to complete.

AWS service restrictions


In this lab environment, access to AWS services and service actions
might be restricted to the ones that are needed to complete the lab
instructions. You might encounter errors if you attempt to access
other services or perform actions beyond the ones that are described
in this lab.

Accessing the AWS Management


Console
1. At the top of these instructions, choose Start Lab.
o The lab session starts.
o A timer displays at the top of the page and shows the time remaining
in the session.

Tip: To refresh the session length at any time, choose Start Lab again
before the timer reaches 0:00.
o Before you continue, wait until the circle icon to the right of the AWS
link in the upper-left corner turns green.

2. To connect to the AWS Management Console, choose the AWS link in


the upper-left corner.
o A new browser tab opens and connects you to the console.

Tip: If a new browser tab does not open, a banner or icon is usually at
the top of your browser with the message that your browser is
preventing the site from opening pop-up windows. Choose the banner
or icon, and then choose Allow pop-ups.

3. Arrange the AWS Management Console tab so that it displays along


side these instructions. Ideally, you will be able to see both browser
tabs at the same time, to make it easier to follow the lab steps.

Getting Credit for your work


At the end of this lab you will be instructed to submit the lab to
receive a score based on your progress.

Tip: The script that checks you works may only award points if you
name resources and set configurations as specified. In particular,
values in these instructions that appear in This Format should be entered
exactly as documented (case-sensitive).

Task 1: Access the Elastic Beanstalk


environment
4. In the console, in the search box to the right of to *Services*, search
for and choose *Elastic Beanstalk*.
A page titled Environments should open, and it should show a table
that lists the details for an existing Elastic Beanstalk application.

Note: If the status in the Health column is not Ok, it has not finished
starting yet. Wait a few moments, and it should change to Ok.

5. Under the Environment name column, choose the name of the


environment.

The Dashboard page for your Elastic Beanstalk environment opens.

6. Notice that the page shows that the health of your application is Ok.

The Elastic Beanstalk environment is ready to host an application.


However, it does not yet have running code.

7. Test access to the environment.


o Near the top of the page, choose the Domain link (the URL ends in
elasticbeanstalk.com).

When you choose the URL, a new browser tab opens. However, you
should see that it displays an HTTP Status 404 - Not Found message.
This behavior is expected because this application server doesn't have
an application running on it yet.

o Return to the Elastic Beanstalk console.

In the next step, you will deploy code in your Elastic Beanstalk
environment.

Task 2: Deploy a sample application to


Elastic Beanstalk
8. To download a sample application, choose this link:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/samples/tomc
at.zip

9. Back in the Elastic Beanstalk Dashboard, choose Upload and Deploy.


10. Choose Choose File, then navigate to and open the tomcat.zip file
that you just downloaded.

11. Choose Deploy.

It will take a minute or two for Elastic Beanstalk to update your


environment and deploy the application.

12. After the deployment is complete, choose the Domain URL link
(or, if you still have the browser tab that displayed the 404 status,
refresh that page).

The web application that you deployed displays.


Congratulations, you have successfully deployed an application on
Elastic Beanstalk!

13. Back in the Elastic Beanstalk console, choose Configuration in


the left pane.

Notice the details here.

For example, in the Instance traffic and scaling panel, it indicates the
EC2 Security groups, minimum and maximum instances, and instance
type details of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
instances that are hosting your web application.

14. In the Networking, database, and tags panel, no configuration


details display, because the environment does not include a database.

15. In the Networking, database, and tags row, choose Edit.

Note that you could easily enable a database to this environment if


you wanted to: you only need to set a few basic configurations and
choose Apply. (However, for the purposes of this activity, you do not
need to add a database.)

o Choose Cancel at the bottom of the screen.

16. In the left panel under Environment, choose Monitoring.

Browse through the charts to see the kinds of information that are
available to you.

Task 3: Explore the AWS resources that


support your application
17. In the console, in the search box to the right of to *Services*,
search for and choose EC2

18. Choose Instances.

Note that two instances that support your web application are running
(they both contain samp in their names).
19. If you want to continue exploring the Amazon EC2 service
resources that were created by Elastic Beanstalk, feel free to explore
them. You will find:
o A security group with port 80 open
o A load balancer that both instances belong to
o An Auto Scaling group that runs from two to six instances, depending
on the network load

Though Elastic Beanstalk created these resources for you, you still
have access to them.

Submitting your work


20. To record your progress, choose Submit at the top of these
instructions.

21. When prompted, choose Yes.

After a couple of minutes, the grades panel appears and shows you
how many points you earned for each task. If the results don't display
after a couple of minutes, choose Grades at the top of these
instructions.

Important: Some of the checks made by the submission process in this


lab will only give you credit if it has been at least 5 minutes since you
completed the action. If you do not receive credit the first time you
submit, you may need to wait a couple minutes and the submit again
to receive credit for these items.

Tip: You can submit your work multiple times. After you change your
work, choose Submit again. Your last submission is recorded for this
lab.
22. To find detailed feedback about your work, choose Submission
Report.

Tip: For any checks where you did not receive full points, there are
sometimes helpful details provided in the submission report.

Activity complete
Congratulations! You have completed the activity.

23. At the top of this page, choose End Lab and then to confirm that
you want to end the activity, choose Yes.

A panel appears, with a message that indicates: DELETE has been


initiated... You may close this message box now.

24. To close the panel, go to the top-right corner and choose the X.

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