Deploy Docker Image to AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Infrastructure

deployment

SHOW HN2016

81points
26comments
#467of 2,264 in 2016
Top 21%of 2016 by points

How HN took it

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2 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 3 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score +0.02.

Performance: 0 for, 2 againstExecution: 1 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Elastic Beanstalk is easy to use and automates a lot

    From 2 comments
    • Elastic Beanstalk is fantastic. It's a really nice mix of not having to worry about the granular infra of Heroku, but still having control of things where you want. It makes…
      madeofpalk on HN
    • It's good, but it's not perfect. Some of the issues we have encountered: it's slow to deploy; it doesn't always provide enough feedback (watching the Events page for 5-10 minutes…
      abrookewood on HN

Objections

  • Elastic Beanstalk deploys are slow and give poor feedback

    From 2 comments
    • It's good, but it's not perfect. Some of the issues we have encountered: it's slow to deploy; it doesn't always provide enough feedback (watching the Events page for 5-10 minutes…
      abrookewood on HN
    • How do people detect errors? I run 5 beanstalk environments right now and they randomly fail and i'm not really sure if it's my fault or if beanstalk isn't reliable in certain…
      dustingetz on HN
  • Random deploy failures

    From 1 comment
    • How do people detect errors? I run 5 beanstalk environments right now and they randomly fail and i'm not really sure if it's my fault or if beanstalk isn't reliable in certain…
      dustingetz on HN
  • Log access in Elastic Beanstalk is poor

    From 1 comment
    • What have you guys done for server logs in EB? The system they seem to have in place is god awful. Even through their CLI, it seems to have to make a request and load about 100…
      ralusek on HN

Requests

  • Better CLI support for SAML auth in AWS CLI

    From 1 comment
    • It would be fantastic if their was better CLI support for SAML auth in the AWS CLI.
      ranman on HN

Questions

  • Why use the aws CLI instead of the eb CLI

    From 1 comment
    • I noticed you use the aws CLI instead of the eb-cli. Any reason for that? This is an incredibly easy task with the eb cli
      nhumrich on HN
  • How does this differ from ECS

    From 1 comment
    • In what ways is this different from ECS? It's strange to me that you can do the same thing in slightly different ways.
      hepta on HN

Alternatives named

  • Gantree

    From 1 comment
    • At Bleacher Report we use a Ruby app called Gantree to manage this process. It pulls in appropriate ebextensions for the deploy by taking a convention over configuration…
      sillypog on HN
  • Docker Cloud (Tutum)

    From 1 comment
  • Amazon ECS

    From 2 comments
    • In what ways is this different from ECS? It's strange to me that you can do the same thing in slightly different ways.
      hepta on HN
    • multi-container docker deploys actually launch ecs for you. so its basically cloudformation+ecs, removing the step of configuring autoscaling groups and adding some management…
      idunno246 on HN

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