AWS ELB Setup

addKeyPair.md

Create a key-pair and then attach it to Elastic Beanstalk environment.

• Steps to create a key-pair

  • Login to AWS
  • Services -> EC2
  • In left under NETWORK & SECURITY select key pairs
  • Select Create new Key Pair, type key name and click on create. The key will be automatically downloaded to your system.
  • Steps to attach created key pair to Elastic Beanstalk environment

• AWS -> Services -> Elastic Beanstalk

  • Select your environment and click on the configuration in left.
  • In Configuration overview select modify from Security.
  • Under Virtual machine permissions select key-pair that we created.
  • Click on save and then on save configuration.
  • This will take some time to reflect to your EC2 instance.

basic_setup.md

Checklist

• Remeber to open the SSH port 22 from your ip

• Make key-pair, attach the key pair with elastic beanstalk.

• ssh connect :

   - chmod 400 "pem file" 
   - ssh -i "pem file" ec2-user@ec2-52-66-11-178.ap-south-1.compute.amazonaws.com
  

• IAM account programmatic access "Access key ID,Secret access key"

• Give nodejs user proper permissions. ebextension folder.

gotchas.md

• Any chnage in the environment variables from the elasticbeanstalk management console will not be reflected in your app until you redeploy it.

• Any chnage in the envrionment varibales though will trigger an "Environment Update"

• ^ is a illegal character in mongo password for AWS management console.