Deploy Meteor to AWS Elastic Beanstalk

app-name.config

option_settings:

  - option_name: ROOT_URL
    value: http://app-name.elasticbeanstalk.com

  - option_name: MONGO_URL
    value: mongodb://user:pass@some-mongo.com:3001/app-name

  - namespace: aws:elasticbeanstalk:container:nodejs
    option_name: ProxyServer
    value: nginx

  - namespace: aws:elasticbeanstalk:container:nodejs:staticfiles
    option_name: /public
    value: /public

deploy.md

Building Meteor

create the meteor bundle

meteor build ../build-folder --architecture os.linux.x86_64

extract the build .tar.gz file to some directory

cd /the-bundle-dir/
cd ./programs/server
npm install
rm -rf ./node_modules/fibers
cd /the-bundle-dir/
mkdir .ebextensions

Add app-name.config into .ebextensions folder and place package.json in the root of the bundle folder.

Then zip it all up again, and deploy by uploading the zip file to EB.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk Configs

Make sure that the node version you are running on AWS EB is 0.10.46. It may work on newer versions. I just haven't tested it yet.

package.json

{
  "name": "app-name",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "scripts": {
    "start": "node main.js"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "bcrypt": "*",
    "fibers": "*",
    "forever": "*",
    "semver": "*",
    "source-map-support": "*",
    "underscore": "*"
  }
}