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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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Level
Clock icon Beginner
Duration
Clock icon 45m
Published
Clock icon May 25, 2023

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Log In to AWS Console

    Log in to the lab enviroment

  2. Challenge

    Create Elastic Beanstalk Environment

    Launch a new Elastic beanstalk loadout using the service role and EC2 that the lab enviorment created

  3. Challenge

    Clone Elastic Beanstalk Environment

    Clone your previously made Elastic Beanstalk environment.

  4. Challenge

    Swap the CNAMEs

    Swap the CNAMEs allowing you to have the green background to your blue!

  5. Challenge

    Confirm CNAME Swap

    Confirm CNAME swap is working correctly by uploading the blue app to your geen deployment!

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Pluralsight Skills gives leaders confidence they have the skills needed to execute technology strategy. Technology teams can benchmark expertise across roles, speed up release cycles and build reliable, secure products. By leveraging our expert content, skill assessments and one-of-a-kind analytics, keep up with the pace of change, put the right people on the right projects and boost productivity. It's the most effective path to developing tech skills at scale.

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Hands-on Labs are real environments created by industry experts to help you learn. These environments help you gain knowledge and experience, practice without compromising your system, test without risk, destroy without fear, and let you learn from your mistakes. Hands-on Labs: practice your skills before delivering in the real world.

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Follow along with the author’s guided walkthrough and build something new in your provided environment!

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