Docker Cookbook

8.14 Starting an Application in the Cloud Using Docker Support in AWS Beanstalk | 269

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With the AWS CLI, create an application 
foobar
, list the solution stacks, and pick the
Docker environment you need. Create a 
configuration template
by using the solution
stack of your choice, and finally, create an 
environment
:
$ aws elasticbeanstalk create-application --application-name foobar
...
$ aws elasticbeanstalk list-available-solution-stacks
...
$ aws elasticbeanstalk create-configuration-template
--application-name foobar
--solution-stack-name="64bit Amazon Linux 2014.09 v1.2.1 \
running Docker 1.5.0"
--template-name foo
...
$ aws elasticbeanstalk create-environment
--application-name foobar
--environment-name cookbook
--template-name foo
At this point, if you head over to the AWS Beanstalk console, you will see a 
foobar
application and a 
cookbook
environment being created. Once Beanstalk has finished
creating the environment, you can use the 
describe-environments
API call and see
that the environment is ready. In the console, you will also see that an EC2 instance, a
security group, and an elastic load-balancer have been created. You can configure the
load-balancers through the Beanstalk console.
Going back to our CLI steps, check that the environment is ready:
$ aws elasticbeanstalk describe-environments
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| DescribeEnvironments |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|| Environments ||
|+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------------+|
|| ApplicationName | foobar ||
|| CNAME | cookbook-pmpgzmx2e6.elasticbeanstalk.com ||
|| DateCreated | 2015-03-30T15:32:47.814Z ||
|| DateUpdated | 2015-03-30T15:38:14.291Z ||
|| EndpointURL | awseb-e-7-AWSEBLoa-CUXDVD6RL9R7-992275618.eu-west-1...||
|| EnvironmentId | e-7hamntqqnw ||
|| EnvironmentName | cookbook ||
|| Health | Green ||
|| SolutionStackName| 64bit Amazon Linux 2014.09 v1.2.1 running Docker 1.5.0||
|| Status | Ready ||
|+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------------+|
||| Tier |||
||+-----------------------------------------+--------------------------------+||
||| Name | WebServer |||
||| Type | Standard |||
||| Version | |||
||+-----------------------------------------+--------------------------------+||