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Mark Dsouza
Mark Dsouza

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Elastic Beanstalk CLI Quick Command List

Here's a quick list of the AWS Elastic Beanstalk CLI Commands and their description for the super busy developer.

eb init

  • Used to configure a local repository for your Elastic Beanstalk environment and source code. This will prompt you for your aws-access-id & aws-secret-key to connect to your aws account.

eb list

  • Lists down all environments that are present for your application

eb open

  • Opens the public url of the application

eb health

  • To check the status of the application and various instances

eb events

  • Prints the latest events for the specific environment

eb appversion

  • Shows all app versions which are available in an interactive mode. User can delete a version of the application or create the application version lifecycle policy

eb config

  • Gets all config of the environment. Saves the environment configuration settings as well as uploads, downloads, or lists saved configurations

eb terminate

  • Terminates the environment

eb restore

  • Rebuilds a terminated environment, creating a new environment with the same name, ID, and configuration

eb upgrade

  • Upgrades the platform of your environment to the most recent version available for the platform

eb clone

  • Clones the environment

eb create

  • Creates a new environment and deploys an application version to it

eb abort

  • Cancels an upgrade when environment configuration changes to instances are still in progress

eb scale

  • Scales the environment to always run on a specified number of instances, setting both the minimum and maximum number of instances to the specified number

eb swap

  • Helps you swap the environment's CNAME with the CNAME of another environment to avoid any down time

eb logs

  • Retrieves the tail logs of your environment

eb logs --all

  • Retrieves all logs of your environment

eb setenv

  • Set an environment property

eb printenv

  • Prints the environment properties

eb deploy

  • Deploys the application source bundle from the initialized project directory to the running application

eb codesource

  • Configures the EB CLI to deploy from a CodeCommit repository, or disables CodeCommit integration and uploads the source bundle from your local machine

eb ssh

  • Allows you to ssh into a non windows server/instance

eb tags

  • Add, delete, update, and list tags of an Elastic Beanstalk resource

Overall elastic beanstalk CLI is pretty straight forward to use for the beginner/intermediate developer.
For additional options and remaining commands check out the For the full list refer to AWS official documentation
What's your favorite command?

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