Application deployment and management with AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a service that simplifies the process of deploying applications by automatically handling deployment details, such as provisioning and configuring AWS resources. It provides managed environments with pre-configured resources, making it easy to scale based on demand. The service can automatically adjust the number of EC2 instances based on application traffic, ensuring efficient handling of varying workloads.
Elastic Beanstalk integrates with other AWS services, facilitating seamless utilization of a range of AWS offerings. It supports rolling updates for applications, allowing for zero-downtime deployments, and provides monitoring capabilities through AWS CloudWatch.
The service ensures a secure environment with features like encryption, AWS IAM integration, and compliance with industry standards. While it offers a fully managed environment, developers also have the option to customize configurations for more control over the underlying infrastructure. Elastic Beanstalk can be interacted with using the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or API, providing flexibility in deployment and management options.
Supported platforms
Elastic Beanstalk supports multiple programming languages and frameworks, including Python, Java, Node.js, Ruby, Go, PHP, Docker, and more. It accommodates various application architectures.
Deploying a Django application on Elastic Beanstalk
In this section, we will explore how to create a basic Django application and how we can deploy it on Elastic Beanstalk. We will use CLI commands to deploy our Django Application on Elastic Beanstalk. To deploy an application using CLI commands, we need Python 3.7
or later, awscli
, virtualenv
and awsebcli
. We can download virtualenv
by using the command below: