Overview

• managed service
  • instance configuration / OS is handled by beanstalk
  • deployment strategy is configurable but performed by BeanStalk
• just the application code is the responsibility of the developer
• three architecture models:
  • single instance deployment: good for dev
  • LB + ASG: great for production or pre-production web applications
  • ASG only: great for non-web apps in production (workers, etc...)
• include 3 components:
  • application
  • application version: each deployment gets assigned a version
  • environment name (dev, test, prod...): free naming
• deploy application version to environments and can promote application versions to the next environment
• rollback to previous application version
• full control over lifecycle of environments

Deployment Strategy

All at once

• fastest deployment
• application has downtime
• great for quick iterations in development environment
• no additional cost

Rolling

• application is running below capacity
• can set the bucket size
• application is running both versions simultaneously