We primarily use Elastic Beanstalk to deploy web applications, mostly built with Django, Laravel, or even native PHP. It provides two options: deploying directly on EC2 or using a Dockerized environment on EC2. This distinction is crucial because Elastic Beanstalk manages your entire platform's environmental configuration. For example, with Django, it handles your Python virtual environment. Similarly, for PHP, it takes care of PHP-FPM configurations, NGINX configurations, and more. Another incredibly useful feature is the ability to add configuration files directly to your repository. These files allow you to make modifications to the environment. For instance, you can alter server settings like maximum memory or adjust NGINX configurations. These changes are automatically applied through pre-deployment and post-deployment hooks. Furthermore, we install certificates directly within Elastic Beanstalk using our repository. This eliminates the need to SSH into the server. It's all streamlined and readily available out of the box.
Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) is a kind of cloud computing service in which, rather than having to build and maintain their own infrastructure, a client is able to develop, run, and manage applications on a platform that is provided by a third-party provider. The provider hosts both software and hardware, freeing the client from having to install and handle them in-house.
I work with EC2, S3 for storage, Elastic Beanstalk, CloudFront, and CloudWatch.
We primarily use Elastic Beanstalk to deploy web applications, mostly built with Django, Laravel, or even native PHP. It provides two options: deploying directly on EC2 or using a Dockerized environment on EC2. This distinction is crucial because Elastic Beanstalk manages your entire platform's environmental configuration. For example, with Django, it handles your Python virtual environment. Similarly, for PHP, it takes care of PHP-FPM configurations, NGINX configurations, and more. Another incredibly useful feature is the ability to add configuration files directly to your repository. These files allow you to make modifications to the environment. For instance, you can alter server settings like maximum memory or adjust NGINX configurations. These changes are automatically applied through pre-deployment and post-deployment hooks. Furthermore, we install certificates directly within Elastic Beanstalk using our repository. This eliminates the need to SSH into the server. It's all streamlined and readily available out of the box.