Deploy Docker project in ElasticBeanstalk

PS: ElasticBeanstalk console now looks a bit different since AWS updated it, but the core concepts are still the same
In this video, you will learn how to deploy a Docker project in ElasticBeanstalk and you will also learn how to solve the most common problems that happen in the process:
- Timeout due to big Dockerfiles
- Using ECR to create a preconfigured Docker image
- Handling different architectures: ARM64 and X86
- Grant IAM permissions for ElasticBeanstalk to pull the ECR image
The project was a NestJS(NodeJS) project using Yarn to manage packages. One of the packages was 'bcrypt', which is a library to manage user password encryption, which requires Python3 to be installed on the machine.
Helpful links:
- docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbe...
- docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbe...
0:00 - Introduction
1:30 - Create ElasticBeanstalk project
5:55 - Upload zipped code to ElasticBeanstalk
7:54 - Solving timeout issue
10:12 - Create ECR project
14:40 - Using ECR into Dockerfile
15:00 - Zip updated project and upload to ElasticBeanstalk
16:20 - Observations related to ARM64/X86 architecture
18:20 - Grant IAM permissions for ECR
19:55 - Conclusion

[@kumailn7662]

Man you are simply great, while demonstrating the technique.

[@gabrielvaladares4972]

The best teacher of The online world

[@computingpower]

🤓🖥️

[@arielro85]

If im not wrong, you can use bcrypt-js and dont depend on python. Awesome video :)

[@computingpower]

Interesting! I didn’t know about that. Thanks for letting me know :)

[@LucasoMontarroyos]

Excellent!

[@computingpower]

Thank you, Lucas!

[@gabrielvaladares4972]

He makes my app. Recomendo

[@computingpower]

😂😂😂 thank you my friend!

[@wellianeoliveira2302]

Great

[@computingpower]

Thank you, Welliane!

[@marcelcohen3435]

Thanks for the video. Does ElasticBeanstalk detect that the exposed port of your container is 4000 and maps port 80 of the host to your container's port?

[@computingpower]

Hello, thanks for the question! By default, AWS uses port 5000 on an app.
But you can use a custom port by passing a PORT environment variable on ElasticBeanstalk docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/nodejs-platform-proxy.html
- If that doesn't work, you can also override the NGINX configuration on ElasticBeanstalk and set another port on NGINX stackoverflow.com/questions/66074722/what-is-the-port-number-of-the-web-application-to-which-default-proxy-config-on

[@hectorlopez9393]

thanks sir, really helpfull

[@bigchallenge7987]

How much was the docker file size when you try to deploy first and it failed?

[@computingpower]

Sorry, it's been a while since I did this project. 😅 But if I remember well, the first issue was caused due to timeout to run all steps, not necessarily because the Docker file was too big. So, creating a new Docker file to cache some steps was required.

[@Dmitrii-Kalashnikov]

Thank you, I like your approach it helped me

[@computingpower]

Glad it was helpful 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

[@AleksandarT10]

If i am running on an x64 machine, how are we able to build an image for arm64?

[@computingpower]

I think that the easiest way to do it is to generate the image in an EC2 instance with ARM64 architecture

[@Saitama-ur3lq]

you are not using bcrypt to "encrypt" passwords, you are using bcrypt to "hash" them,, there is a huge difference

[@computingpower]

Thanks for pointing out

[@gustavostnt]

After 3 days of trying to get it to work, I'm giving up

[@computingpower]

Hey what was the problem?

[@gustavostnt]

@@computingpower It just complains that it expected my app to be version "sample" instead of 1

[@computingpower]

@@gustavostnt Is this on the ElasticBeanstalk console?

[@gustavostnt]

@@computingpower Yes, the web UI. I'll be using just regular RDS + EC2 for now