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Settings to deploy to AWS Elastic Beanstalk on CircleCi (EB Cli 3)
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deploy_with_ebcli3_on_circleci.md

This is how I configured the deploy of my rails apps to AWS Elastic Beanstalk through CircleCI 1.0.

If you are using the Circle CI 2.0, take a look at this article from ryansimms

Configure Environments Variables

On Project Settings > Environment Variables add this keys:

  • AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
  • AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
    The aws user must have the right permissions. This can be hard, maybe, this can help you.

Create a bash script to create the eb config file

./setup-eb.sh

set -x
set -e

mkdir /home/ubuntu/.aws
touch /home/ubuntu/.aws/config
chmod 600 /home/ubuntu/.aws/config
echo "[profile eb-cli]" > /home/ubuntu/.aws/config
echo "aws_access_key_id=$AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID" >> /home/ubuntu/.aws/config
echo "aws_secret_access_key=$AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY" >> /home/ubuntu/.aws/config

Configure circle.yml

Add the awsebcli dependency:

dependencies:
  pre:
    - sudo apt-get update
    - sudo apt-get install python-dev
    - sudo pip install awsebcli

Add the deployment config:

deployment:
  production:
    branch: master
    commands:
      - bash ./setup-eb.sh
      - eb deploy
  • If your deploy user don't have the elasticbeanstalk:DescribeEvents permission, the eb deploy will run for ever. CircleCI will cancel it after 10 minutes and break the build with timeout.

Create the EB Cli config file

eb init will create this file for you. However, if you don't want to run it, you can simply create and configure this file manualy:

./elasticbeanstalk/config.yml

branch-defaults:
  master:
    environment: you-environment-name
global:
  application_name: your-application-name
  default_ec2_keyname: ec2-key-pair-name
  default_platform: 64bit Amazon Linux 2015.03 v1.4.3 running Ruby 2.2 (Puma)
  default_region: sa-east-1
  profile: eb-cli
  sc: git
@justinthareja
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Worked flawlessly with the dependencies snippet from @tonyfruzza.

@anbestephen: I got the same error message, then noticed this snippet in my gitignore

# Elastic Beanstalk Files
.elasticbeanstalk/*
!.elasticbeanstalk/*.cfg.yml
!.elasticbeanstalk/*.global.yml

which was automatically generated when I ran eb init in my project folder locally, preventing the generated .elasticbeanstalk/config.yml from being commited to my repo. After adding an !.elasticbeanstalk/config.yml exception, Circle Ci ran eb deploy <my_environment> with no problem. Not sure if you're having a similar issue, but EB Cli config file must exist in order to run a deploy.

@mikeghen
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mikeghen commented Nov 8, 2016

This is great, thank you! 👍 🌟

@joemccall86
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@justinthareja Why do you think those were in gitignore? Would tracking those files in git them break any recommended best-practices by EB?

@tripper54
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@joemccall86 It's probably a good idea to leave those entries in gitignore. This lets you do things like eb ssh into different environments without changing the config in VC.

I got around this by storing a config.yml elsewhere in my codebase and copying into place for circleci:

release:
    tag: /release-.*/
    owner: me
    commands:
      - mkdir .elasticbeanstalk
      - cp resources/circle/eb/config.yml .elasticbeanstalk/config.yml
      - eb deploy --profile default

@vivekna1
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vivekna1 commented Mar 13, 2017 •
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@euharrison
I am trying to follow your cue i.e " fill the AWS KEY and SECRET in the CircleCI site, you can remove the bash ./setup-eb.sh and just use the command eb deploy --profile default"
It asks for running eb init and
eb init is stuck without selecting any option, (new to eb commands). What needs to be done here?

@merliecat
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@vivekna1
I got the same issue, i.e. I needed to put 'eb init' and the process was halted when it asked for an option.
The solution was to choose an option from the list (for me it was '15: eu-west-2') and then do the following: -
- echo 15 | eb init
I.e. pipe the selected response into the 'eb init' command.

@kevin-coyle
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  pre:
    - sudo apt-get install libyaml-dev libpython2.7-dev
    - sudo pip install 'awsebcli==3.7.4' --force-reinstall

This works for me

@jkaldenbach
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To use the current version of awsebcli on the 14.04, I had to install python-dev (solves the Python.H issue) and update pip (solves Import Error: No module named packaging.version):

pre:
    - sudo apt-get install python-dev
    - sudo pip install --upgrade pip
    - sudo pip install awsebcli

@v-osazemeu
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@jkaldenbach was the only solution that worked for me. Thanks guys

@rahul-raina
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rahul-raina commented Jun 19, 2017 •
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@osazemeu -- had to end up using easy install

pre:
    - sudo apt-get install python-dev
    - sudo easy_install --upgrade six
    - sudo pip install awsebcli

@theoutlander
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theoutlander commented Nov 1, 2017 •
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Thanks a lot! I had to use a slightly modified version:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
mkdir ~/.aws
touch ~/.aws/config
chmod 600 ~/.aws/config
echo "[profile eb-cli]" > ~/.aws/config
echo "aws_access_key_id=$AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID" >> ~/.aws/config
echo "aws_secret_access_key=$AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY" >> ~/.aws/config

Also, specifying the keys in the CircleCI UI made them available only as environment variables. Not sure why it didn't create these files!

@ryansimms
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Thanks for this, it was a big help for getting started with deploying to Elastic Beanstalk via CircleCi.

For those coming to this page that want to use CircleCi 2.0 (as I did), I wrote up the steps I took after hours of trial and error, hopefully they'll help someone:

https://gist.github.com/ryansimms/808214137d219be649e010a07af44bad

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molayodecker commented Mar 30, 2020 •
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I am get this error
ERROR: InvalidProfileError - The config profile (default) could not be found

This error means that is need to set the Environment variables for AWS on CircleCI. Which i have done. I even went under Permissions to set my aws Permissions. I even created a script to copy my aws credentials but nothings seems to work

            - run: 
                name: Create aws credentials
                command: |
                    chmod +x ./setup-eb.sh
                    bash ./setup-eb.sh
            - run:
                name: Deploying
                working_directory: /
                command: |
                    eb deploy TcwlApp-env

script 
#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -x
set -e

mkdir ~/.aws
touch ~/.aws/config
chmod 600 ~/.aws/config
echo "[profile prod]" > ~/.aws/config
echo "aws_access_key_id=$AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID" >> ~/.aws/config
echo "aws_secret_access_key=$AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY" >> ~/.aws/config

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