Retreive Beanstalk Application name from within EC2 instance

envinspect.config

packages: 
  yum:
    jq: [] 

container_commands:
  01-getenv-info:
    command: |
      ENV_ID=`{"Ref": "AWSEBEnvironmentId" }`
      ENV_NAME=`{"Ref": "AWSEBEnvironmentName" }`
      echo "env.id="$ENV_ID > /tmp/awseb.properties
      echo "env.name="$ENV_NAME >> /tmp/awseb.properties
      EC2_REGION=`curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/placement/availability-zone | sed 's/[a-z]$//'`
      APP_NAME=`aws elasticbeanstalk describe-environments --environment-ids $ENV_ID --region=$EC2_REGION | jq -r '.Environments[0].ApplicationName'`
      echo "app.name="$APP_NAME >> /tmp/awseb.properties
      chmod 644 /tmp/awseb.properties

I know this solution is SUPER ugly, but it works. It took me hours of searching online for the various pieces that composed this horrible piece of code, that in the end produces the file with all the info I need.

I know it doesn't make it /much/ less ugly but you can avoid installing jq if you use the --query flag in the AWS CLI which essentially does the same thing as jq (just remove the leading dot I think for this case). Otherwise this is super useful, thanks!

Is there a permission requirement here?
describe-environments seems to return an empty array..

Is there a permission requirement here?
describe-environments seems to return an empty array..

I had the same problem and adding AWSElasticBeanstalkReadOnlyAccess permission to the user fixed the problem. Something more restrictive would probably be better