Guide to hosting a Node.js application on Elastic Beanstalk

travis-elasticbeanstalk.md

How to setup Elastic Beanstalk pipelinen with Node.js, Travis and GitHub

1. First create sample Elastic Beanstalk application from the AWS console.
2. Then create IAM group and user with policy set to AWSElasticBeanstalkFullAccess.
3. Copy the user Access Key Id and secret somewhere safe.
4. Create a new project folder where you create your Node-app. Here's a premade setup if you are lazy: https://github.com/TeemuKoivisto/travis-aws-node
5. Remember to add npm start script!
6. Setup travis yml with travis init and travis setup elastic-beanstalk. Paste your access key and secret when prompted. You can use my project's .travis.yml as a guide.
7. Since travis is stupid and can't actually properly setup your project you have to add manually bucket_name underneath deploy in your .travis.yml.
8. Elastic Beanstalk already generated you a S3 bucket which name you should paste eg. bucket_name: "elasticbeanstalk-us-west-2-014750007983"
9. Permissions for the bucket should already be set correctly so all you have to now is add & commit your code to GitHub.
10. Check Travis to see if your project is building correctly.
11. In a short while EB should replace the sample application with your own! Yey.