Category: Elastic BeanStalk

In this blog we are going to explore how to deploy a Java Spring Boot Application in AWS Elastic BeanStalk using AWS CloudFormation Scripts.

To start, we need a s3 bucket with the jar file.

Step 1 : Create a s3 bucket called “catalog_springboot” using AWS S3 console or using CloudFormation scripts from my previous blog.

Step 2 : Download catalog-springboot project from GitHub. catalog-spring-boot-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar is found under /src/main/resources/jar.

Step 3 : Upload catalog-spring-boot-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar to “catalog_springboot” s3 bucket. [ This can be done via AWS Console or AWS CLI  as below]

aws s3 cp /Users/home/catalog-spring-boot-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar s3://catalog_springboot/catalog-spring-boot-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar

Step 4 : We will be creating beanstalk-catalog-springboot-application.json. It has details regarding beanstalk environment and SolutionStackName which is “64bit Amazon Linux 2017.09 V2.6.8 running Java 8” . It also specifies autoscaling and load-balancing details.

{
  "AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09",
  "Parameters": {
    "S3BucketName": {
      "Description": "S3 BucketName",
      "Type": "String"
    },
    "S3FileName": {
      "Description": "Name of the jar/war file",
      "Type": "String"
    }
  },
  "Resources": {
    "sampleApplication": {
      "Type": "AWS::ElasticBeanstalk::Application",
      "Properties": {
        "Description": "AWS Elastic Beanstalk Sample Java SpringBoot Application"
      }
    },
    "sampleApplicationVersion": {
      "Type": "AWS::ElasticBeanstalk::ApplicationVersion",
      "Properties": {
        "ApplicationName": { "Ref": "sampleApplication" },
        "Description": "AWS ElasticBeanstalk Sample Java SpringBoot Application Version",
        "SourceBundle": {
          "S3Bucket": { "Ref" : "S3BucketName"},
          "S3Key": {"Ref" : "S3FileName"}
        }
      }
    },
    "sampleConfigurationTemplate": {
      "Type": "AWS::ElasticBeanstalk::ConfigurationTemplate",
      "Properties": {
        "ApplicationName": { "Ref": "sampleApplication" },
        "Description": "AWS ElasticBeanstalk Sample Java SpringBoot Configuration Template",
        "OptionSettings": [
          {
            "Namespace": "aws:autoscaling:asg",
            "OptionName": "MinSize",
            "Value": "2"
          },
          {
            "Namespace": "aws:autoscaling:asg",
            "OptionName": "MaxSize",
            "Value": "6"
          },
          {
            "Namespace": "aws:elasticbeanstalk:environment",
            "OptionName": "EnvironmentType",
            "Value": "LoadBalanced"
          }
        ],
        "SolutionStackName": "64bit Amazon Linux 2017.09 v2.6.8 running Java 8"
      }
    },
    "sampleEnvironment": {
      "Type": "AWS::ElasticBeanstalk::Environment",
      "Properties": {
        "ApplicationName": { "Ref": "sampleApplication" },
        "Description": "AWS ElasticBeanstalk Sample Java SpringBoot Environment",
        "TemplateName": { "Ref": "sampleConfigurationTemplate" },
        "VersionLabel": { "Ref": "sampleApplicationVersion" }
      }
    }
  },
  "Outputs": {
    "DevURL": {
      "Description": "The URL of the DEV Elastic Beanstalk environment",
      "Value": {
        "Fn::Join": [
          "",
          [
            {
              "Fn::GetAtt": [
                "sampleEnvironment",
                "EndpointURL"
              ]
            }
          ]
        ]
      },
      "Export": {
        "Name": {
          "Fn::Sub": "${AWS::StackName}-EndpointURL"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Step 5 :  Create beanstalk-catalog-parameters.json which has details of s3 bucket and jar file name.

[
  {
    "ParameterKey": "S3BucketName",
    "ParameterValue": "catalog-springboot"
  },
  {
    "ParameterKey": "S3FileName",
    "ParameterValue": "catalog-spring-boot-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar"
  }
]

 

Step 6 : Create beanstalk_creation_tags.json. It is a best practice to tag AWS resources for billing purposes.

[
  {
    "Key": "owner",
    "Value": "xxxxx"
  },
  {
    "Key": "contact-email",
    "Value": "xxx.yyy@zzz.com"
  }
]

 

Step 7 : Now, run the command from AWS CLI

aws cloudformation create-stack –stack-name catalog-beanstalk –template-body file://beanstalk-catalog-springboot-application.json –parameters file://beanstalk-catalog-parameters.json –tags file://beanstalk_creation_tags.json

AWS CloudFormation console is as follows.

We can see Elastic BeanStalk creation as follows:

Step 8 : When complete, it will show the URL to access the application

Step 9 : Hit the health check url [ URL/api/catalog/health ] from any browser.

Step 10 : Hit the catalog url [ URL/api/catalog ] to get results stored in H2 in-memory database.

Step 11 : To terminate beanstalk, run the below command from AWS CLI

aws cloudformation delete-stack –stack-name catalog-beanstalk