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Deploying Laravel Application On AWS ElasticBeanstalk from Git using CodePipeline

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So you have built your awesome laravel application, and now you want to deploy it on AWS Elasticbeanstalk .

Here are some steps that could help you to successfully deploy your laravel application on elastic beanstalk from GIT using CodePipeline.

This article is for someone who is familiar with the aws environment but struggling deploying Laravel application on elastickbeanstalk from Git using CodePiepline

Step 1 :
Create a “.ebextensions” folder in you Laravel Application Root directory as shown in the image below

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Inside the “.ebextensions” folder , create an “environment.config” file , it could be any name of your choice , copy and paste the content below in the config file you created.

option_settings: aws:elasticbeanstalk:container:php:phpini: document_root: /public aws:elasticbeanstalk:application:environment: APP_NAME: Laravel APP_ENV: local APP_KEY: “your_app_key” APP_DEBUG: true APP_URL: http://localhost LOG_CHANNEL: stack LOG_DEPRECATIONS_CHANNEL: null LOG_LEVEL: debug DB_CONNECTION: mysql DB_HOST: "${RDS_HOSTNAME}" DB_PORT: "${RDS_HOSTNAME}" DB_DATABASE: "${RDS_DB_NAME}" DB_USERNAME: "${RDS_USERNAME}" DB_PASSWORD: "${RDS_PASSWORD}" BROADCAST_DRIVER: log CACHE_DRIVER: file FILESYSTEM_DRIVER: local QUEUE_CONNECTION: sync SESSION_DRIVER: file SESSION_LIFETIME: 120 MEMCACHED_HOST: 127.0.0.1 REDIS_HOST: 127.0.0.1 REDIS_PASSWORD: null REDIS_PORT: 6379 MAIL_MAILER: smtp MAIL_HOST: mailhog MAIL_PORT: 1025 MAIL_USERNAME: null MAIL_PASSWORD: null MAIL_ENCRYPTION: null MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS: null MAIL_FROM_NAME="${APP_NAME}" AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: '' AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: '' AWS_DEFAULT_REGION: us-east-1 AWS_BUCKET: '' AWS_USE_PATH_STYLE_ENDPOINT: false PUSHER_APP_ID: '' PUSHER_APP_KEY: '' PUSHER_APP_SECRET: '' PUSHER_APP_CLUSTER: mt1 MIX_PUSHER_APP_KEY: "${PUSHER_APP_KEY}" MIX_PUSHER_APP_CLUSTER: "${PUSHER_APP_CLUSTER}" container_commands: 01-no_dev: command: "composer.phar install --optimize-autoloader" 02-artisan_optmize: command: "php artisan optimize" files: "/etc/cron.d/schedule_run": mode: "000644" owner: root group: root content: | * * * * * webapp php /var/www/html/artisan schedule:run --env=production >> /dev/null 2>&1 "/etc/php.d/99max_size.ini" : mode: "000755" owner: root group: root content: | upload_max_filesize = 128M post_max_size = 128M
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Create a second config file , could be anyname different from the name of the first config file. Copy and paste the content below in the newly created config file.

commands: setvars: command: /opt/elasticbeanstalk/bin/get-config optionsettings | \jq '."aws:elasticbeanstalk:application:environment"' | \jq -r 'to_entries | .[] | "export \(.key)=\"\(.value)\""' > /etc/profile.d/local.sh
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The command in this config file exposes the ElasticBeanstalk environment variables to the EC2 instance created by the Elasticbeanstalk instance so that your laravel application can have access to the environment variables

Step 2:
Create a .platform folder in the root of your laravel application , following this structure in the image below

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Copy and paste the content below in the laravel.conf file

location / { try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string; gzip_static on; } client_max_body_size 128M;
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Step 3 :
Head over to https://console.aws.amazon.com, create an elastic beanstalk instance , select “Web server enviroment” as show in the picture below.

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Step 4 : After you are done creating your elasticbeanstalk instance , go here to see how to attach an rds database to your elasticbeanstalk instance . This will expose the following environment variables to your laravel application

 RDS_HOSTNAME RDS_HOSTNAME RDS_DB_NAME RDS_USERNAME RDS_PASSWORD
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You can either change your laravel config to read this environment variable name directly in your “config/database.php” or you reference it as shown in the environment.config file you created in step 1.

Step 4 :

• Create a code pipeline on AWS.
• Choose Source Provider as “Github (Version 2)” , you can skip the build stage.
• On the Deploy stage choose “AWS Elasticbeanstalk” as your deploy provider, you would then select the earlier created application from the list of application names available
• Once you are done filling all the necessary information, review and release changes

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Step 5: Your Pipeline would run through all the stages and automatically deploy your laravel application to your elasticbeanstalk environment

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