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Blue/Green Deployments with Elastic Beanstalk
In the world of continuous deployment and high-availability applications, blue/green deployment has become a critical strategy. This lab focuses on a fundamental, yet crucial step in implementing blue/green deployments: creating and managing multiple environments in AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
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Challenge
Log In to AWS Console
Log in to the lab enviroment and create a default VPC.
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Challenge
Create Elastic Beanstalk Environment
Launch a new Elastic beanstalk loadout using the service role and EC2 instance profile that you created.
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Challenge
Clone Elastic Beanstalk Environment
Clone your previously made Elastic Beanstalk environment.
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Challenge
Create a service role for Elastic Beanstalk
Create a custom service role for Elastic Beanstalk and name it CustomServiceRoleForElasticBeanstalk.
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Create an EC2 instance profile for Elastic Beanstalk
Name the role CustomEC2InstanceProfileForElasticBeanstalk and provide it with the AWSElasticBeanstalkReadOnly policy.
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