Elastic Beanstalk

Question 1

What is Elastic Beanstalk?

Answer 1

Service for deploying and scaling web apps in popular languages widely using web server platforms

GUI for easy upload code and Beanstlak provisions all reasources for you

Question 2

What is the fastest and simplest way to deploy an app in AWS?

Answer 2

Elastic Beanstalk

Question 3

Languages supported by Elastic Beanstalk

Answer 3

Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Docker
.NET
Node.js

Question 4

App Server Platforms supported by Elastic Beanstalk

Answer 4

Tomcat
Passenger
Puma
IIS

Question 5

How to integrate monitoring and health checks in Elastic Beanstalk

Answer 5

No need this is all included

Question 6

Can you take admin control of EC2 instances in Elastic Beanstalk?

Answer 6

Yes, although Elastic Beanstalk can fully manage EC2 instances for you. You can also take full admin control.

Question 7

Deployment Policies of Elastic Beanstalk

Answer 7

All at Once

Rolling

Rolling with additional Batch

Immutable

Traffic Splitting

Question 8

Describe Traffic Splitting Elastic Beanstalk Deployment Policy

Answer 8

Immutable deployment with percentage of incoming traffic to new app version for evaluation

Enables Canary Testing

Question 9

How to customize Elastic Beanstalk Enviornment

Answer 9

.config file (JSON or YAML)

save in .ebextensions folder (must. be in top level directory of app)

Question 10

2 options for connection RDS and Elastic Beanstalk

Answer 10

1) Can create w/ beanstalk (good for dev and test but not for prod) as this would delete RDS in production
2) For prod decouple RDS from Elastic Beanstalk

Question 11

How to decouple RDS from Elastic Beanstalk?

Answer 11

Launch RDS outside of Elastic Beanstalk

Add additional security group

Provide connection info as env. properties

Allow connect from multi env.

Question 12

If you want additional info about resources in ELB env what should you enable?

Answer 12

Enhanced health reporting

Question 13

Where are application logs stored in ELB?

Answer 13

S3

Question 14

Where are server logs sotred?

Answer 14

S3 or CloudWatch Logs

Question 15

What are possible issues if you recieve message “The instance profile aws-elasticbeanstalk-ec2-role associated with the environment does not exist”

Answer 15

The ELB CLI did not create once because IAM role has no permission to create roles

IAM role already exists but has insufficient permissions that ELB needs

Question 16

What configuration files should you add if you want periodic tasks done in Elastic Beanstalk?

Answer 16

cron.yaml

Question 17

What config file should you add if you need to config env. name, solution stack, and env links to create ElasticBeanstalk enviornment?

Answer 17

env.yaml

Question 18

What config file should you add if you want ot have a multicontainer Docker enviornment hosted in Elastic Beanstalk?

Answer 18

Dockerrun.aws.json

Question 19

Which AWS services can be used as a web server for your Elastic Beanstalk Environment

Answer 19

EC2,
S3,
Auto Scaling Group,
ELB

Question 20

How to deploy new version of Elastic Beanstalk in CLI

Answer 20

package your app as a ZIP file and then run

eb deploy

Question 21

In order to delete an old Elastic Beanstalk environment what do you need to do?

Answer 21

Delete existing security group

Question 22

Ways to migrate an app written in C++ to Elastic Beanstalk (easiest ways)

Answer 22

Use Packer to generate custom AMI and deploy with EB

or

Use Docker to containerize app, deploy with EB