Beanstalk
We are going to use Beanstalk to create our auto scaled, auto load balanced, installed-with-Apache-and-PHP virtual machines (known as "EC2 instances" in Amazon).
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| Click "Services", "Elastic Beanstalk". |
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| Click "Create New Application" |
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| Enter desired name, description, click "Create". |
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| Click "Create one now" to create the enviroment for our application. |
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| Choose "Web server environment", click "Select". |
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| Enter desired domain, description. Scroll down for more... |
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| For "Platform", choose "Preconfigured platform", "PHP". Click "Configure more options". |
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| Choose "High availability", click "Change platform configuration". |
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| Choose "PHP 5.6" (because Wordpress seems to work better in PHP 5), click "Save". |
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| In the "Security" box, click "Modify". (We are going to specify the key pair.) |
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| Choose your key pair, click "Save". (If you do not have a key pair, see part 4.) |
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| Click "Create environment". |
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When it is all done, it will look something like this.
Notice that it is now running a "Sample Application".
Note the "URL" at the top, and visit that URL... |
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| ... to see the "Sample Application". |
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Go back to Amazon, click "Services", "EC2".
Notice that "1 Running Instances" and "1 Load Balancers" are automatically created for us. |
At this juncture, we need to find out the security group that our Beanstalk-managed EC2 instance is running under, the security group of the EFS, and the security group of the RDS, and configure the appropriate inbound rules so that our Beanstalk-managed EC2 instance can access the EFS and RDS.
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Find out the security group of our Beanstalk-managed EC2 instances.
Go Beanstalk, click the app's environment, click "Configuration", then that gear icon in the "Instances" box. |
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| Note the name of the security group. |
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| "Services", "EC2", "Security Groups". Use the name to find the ID. |
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Select the security group that our EFS and RDS are running under (by default, they will be in the "default" security group).
Click "Inbound" tab, "Edit", and add the rules. |
Part 1 - Overview
Part 2 - RDS
Part 3 - EFS
Part 4 - Key Pairs
Part 5 - Beanstalk
Part 6 - ebextensions Folder
Part 7 - Deploy Wordpress
Part 8 - 4000 Concurrent Connections
