EB CLI Installer

1. Overview

This repository hosts scripts to generate self-contained installations of the EB CLI.

1.1. Prerequisites

You will need to have the following prerequisites installed before running the install script.

• Git
  • If not already installed you can download git from the Git downloads page.
• Python
  • We recommend that you install Python using the pyenv Python version manager. Alternately, you can download Python from the Python downloads page.
• virtualenv
  • Follow the virtualenv documentation to install virtualenv.

2. Quick start

2.1. Clone this repository

Use the following:

git clone https://github.com/aws/aws-elastic-beanstalk-cli-setup.git

2.2. Install/Upgrade the EB CLI

MacOS/Linux

On Bash or Zsh:

python ./aws-elastic-beanstalk-cli-setup/scripts/ebcli_installer.py

Windows

In PowerShell or in a Command Prompt window:

python .\aws-elastic-beanstalk-cli-setup\scripts\ebcli_installer.py

2.3. After installation

On Linux and macOS, the output contains instructions to add the EB CLI (and Python) executable file to the shell's $PATH variable, if it isn't already in it.

3. Usage

The ebcli_installer.py Python script will install the awsebcli package in a virtual environment to prevent potential conflicts with other Python packages.

For most use cases you can execute the ebcli_installer.py script with no arguments.

python ./aws-elastic-beanstalk-cli-setup/scripts/ebcli_installer.py

Deploying a Django application to Elastic Beanstalk

1. Prerequisites

To use any AWS service, including Elastic Beanstalk, you need to have an AWS account and credentials. AWS.

1.1. Prerequisites

To follow this tutorial, you should have all of the Common Prerequisites for Python installed, including the following packages:

• Python 3.7 or later

pip

virtualenv

awsebcli

Useful Command Line commands

1. IMPORTANT: Please be sure you are in your virtual env and have installed EB Per above instructions. Otherwise eb commands wont work

2. These are instructions for windows. Mac users please add yours here!

• pip freeze
  • This lets you see all the libraries that are currently loaded in your virtual env. This is a good debug tool.
• App modifictions Run the below lines each time make modification to app. these will ensure the changes are loaded ono the all
  • python manage.py migrate
  • python manage.py makemigrations
  • python manage.py makemigrations Facial_Recognition_App
  • python manage.py migrate --run-syncdb
• eb deploy
  • This will deploy the app on to AWS EB server (This will take a couple of mins.
• eb open
  • This will launch the app on your web.

Useful resource links:

• AWS EB This repository hosts scripts to generate self-contained installations of the EB CLI.
• EB Git Repo EB Git Repo